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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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der ColleBions of Antiquities of extensive Use ; and to pro-mote good Taste and laudable Emulation to excel in in-genious Arts , should be wanting in a Country where thereare such noble ColleBions of Books^ PiElures and Antiqui-ties ; in a Country which bears so great a Char aB er allthe World over for encouraging Learning and Ingenuity ;and where there are very few of Birth and Fortune whohave not taken the Trouble of a Journey through Italy onpurpose to vifit clasiick Ground, and fee the Remains ofancient Arts.

The Defgn of the Discourse on the Gallery of Verres,is not to celebrate the infamous Verres, but the Master-pieces of ancietit Art , which his Vanity and Avarices hadamassed by Methods diametrically opposite to that gene-rous and humane Temper which is the natural Concomi-tant of good Taste ; and which , if the polite Arts do notproduce , they indeedfallfar short of their principal Aimand bejl EjfeBThat noble Tendency to humanize theMind, whence they anciently took their Name (Literaehumaniores) X to which I have often regreted there fhoiddbe none for them in our Language strictly or adequatelycorrespondent. Perhaps that Appellation was given themto fignijy likewise that it is by the Arts of ingeniousCompos tion } whether by the Pen, the Pencil or Chizzel,that Men are mojl remarkably superior to the Brute Cre-ation. They are the Arts of Men. 'Tis not Verres but

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•f Haec Scipio non intelligebat homo doctiffimus atque humanissimus,' tufine ulla bona arte, sine humamtate, sine ingenio, sine literis intelligis &ju-dicas. M. T. Cic. in Verr em. 4. 44.

* Humanitas, —politior humanitas, literae humaniores, — quae ad huma-nltatem pertinent intelligis artes quibus ad humanitatem animus informarisolet.

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