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Three Dissertations : ; One On the Characters of Augustus, Horace and Agrippa, With a Comparison between His two Ministers ... / by the Abbe de Vertot ... to which is added Some Reflections ... by the Earl of Shaftsbury. Another On the Gallery of Verres / by the Abbe Fraguier, in which many excellent Pieces of ancient Statuary, Sculpture and Painting are described. A Third On the Nature, Origin and Use of Masks, in theatrical Representations among the Ancients. by Mr. Boindin ... / [translated by George Turnbull]
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PREFACE

TO THE

READER.

Abbe de Vertot, L’ Abbe de Fraguier, L’Abbe de Bos and Mr. Boindin, the Authorsof the French Discourses , with an EnglishTrans ation of which I now present you, areNames so well known in the Republick of Letters> that Ineed fay nothing about them. What indue d me to pub-lish these Dissertations in English, was in the first Placemy having it in my Power to give the Publics along withthe Trans ation two very rare Pieces of Antiquity , repre-senting the Subje&s of two of them.

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