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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus: And Its Connection With the Mystic Theology of the AncientsPerhaps no Englifhman of modern times, or of any time, has intelligently treated (0 many different departments of literary refearch: Archaeology, Art, Bibliography, Chrillianity, Cufioms, Heraldry, Literary Hillary, Philology.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www...

Excerpt from The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology: An InquiryHiggins, while they excel in respect to scope, accuracy, conciseness, and the arrangement of subjects. They are of untold value for the unfolding of correcter views of Ancient Mythology than have been commonly entertained. Later research has enlarged the province of these investigations, and occasionally modified the conclusions which they had seemed to indicate, but ...

Excerpt from Specimens of Antient Sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman, Vol. 2: Selected From Different Collections in Great Britain by the Society of DilettantiEgyptian art. In a great degree, as -well as to appreciate the superior merit of the more antient Egyptian relics. Beside the statues we possess from the Memnonium, one of which is engraved in our first plate from the original in the British Museum, we lay before the reader...

Excerpt from An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of TasteContaining a Sceptical View of thd'sirbject a. In its Principles. A. In Building, Furniture, Gardening, and Dress. 3. In imitative Art. 4. In Style. 5. In the Productions of Nature. 6. Of the Word Beauty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important histori...

Excerpt from An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of TasteIn objects of vision, however, this in¿uence (if organic sensation is much more pievalent m the imitation than the reality. For painting be1ng no ways connected with utility, but 1n tended merely to please, mental habits, preju 'dices, and associations have much less controul 'over it than over the objects which it1epre sents. In building and ga1dening, and still more in dress and ...

Excerpt from The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology: An InquiryRichard Payne Knight was one of the most thorough scholars of the earlier period of the present century. His works display profound judgment, discrimination, taste, acute ness and erudition, united with extraordinary candor and im partiality, and they constitute an invaluable collection of ancient and curious learning, from which the students of such literature can dr...

Excerpt from Le Culte de Priape Et Ses Rapports Avec la Théologie Mystique des AnciensLorsque l'on a décrit le triple phallus (voir page 114 et plan che XXV, fig. 2 et les dessins que l'écrivain avait devant lui paraissaient représenter ces objets supportés par la patte d'un chien. Depuis que cette page a été imprimée, des esquisses plus correctes nous sont parvenues, et on y distingue clairement les pattes et le pied fourchu d'un bouc.About t...

Excerpt from Le Culte de Priape Et Ses Rapports Avec la Théologie Mystique des AnciensLorsque l'on a décrit le triple phallus (voir page 114 et plan che XXV, fig. 2 et les dessins que l'écrivain avait devant lui paraissaient représenter ces objets supportés par la patte d'un chien. Depuis que cette page a été imprimée, des esquisses plus correctes nous sont parvenues, et on y distingue clairement les pattes et le pied fourchu d'un bouc.About t...

Excerpt from An Analytical Essay on the Greek AlphabetPlural of verbs in 53, 55 Orthography, Greek 14, 29 Orthography of Homer 77 Orthography, Englilh 14 Orthography, French 14 Orthography, Italian 14 Orthography, Spanifh 14.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-th...

Excerpt from An Analytical Essay on the Greek AlphabetPlural of verbs in 53, 55 Orthography, Greek 14, 29 Orthography of Homer 77 Orthography, Englilh 14 Orthography, French 14 Orthography, Italian 14 Orthography, Spanifh 14.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-th...

Excerpt from Specimens of Antient Sculpture, Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman, Vol. 1: Selected From Different Collections in Great BritainPrimiti'c art 3. In those arts, which peculiarly and immediately belong to it, we may discover some rude efforts in the rudest state of original na ture, there being scarcely any nation or tribe hitherto discovered, that had not made some attempts to imitate, by lines or forms, the natural objects, whic...

Excerpt from Specimens of Antient Sculpture, Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman, Vol. 1: Selected From Different Collections in Great BritainPrimiti'c art 3. In those arts, which peculiarly and immediately belong to it, we may discover some rude efforts in the rudest state of original na ture, there being scarcely any nation or tribe hitherto discovered, that had not made some attempts to imitate, by lines or forms, the natural objects, whic...

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