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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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Such a happy Change was chiefly Mæcenass Work :So that if Agrippa made his Master triumph over a thou-sand publick Dangers and all his open Enemies; Mæce-nas on the other Hand disarmed his secret ones; recon-ciled free Men to Servitude, and rendered Monarchy, sohateful to Republicans, tolerable even to them.

x See Suet on. D. Oft. c. 57. But fee likewise Tacitus. Ann. I. 1. in the Be-ginning.

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