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From very early times there have been , at least , at- tempts at portraits on coins , and it would be difficult to find any very substantial reason , but that of ancient usage , for continuing on current money the portraits and names of ...
From very early times there have been , at least , at- tempts at portraits on coins , and it would be difficult to find any very substantial reason , but that of ancient usage , for continuing on current money the portraits and names of ...
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A knowledge of this subject is unquestionably to be re- garded as of use to the reader of ancient authors , but we can hardly consent to Mr. Pinkerton's proposal of ranking it with the sciences of geography and chronology .
A knowledge of this subject is unquestionably to be re- garded as of use to the reader of ancient authors , but we can hardly consent to Mr. Pinkerton's proposal of ranking it with the sciences of geography and chronology .
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He also shews us that the cele- brated rust of ancient coins is really of considerable beauty , and of some use ; and we shall be glad to lay before our readers the following very accurate description of it . < This fine rust , which is ...
He also shews us that the cele- brated rust of ancient coins is really of considerable beauty , and of some use ; and we shall be glad to lay before our readers the following very accurate description of it . < This fine rust , which is ...
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Contents
Affaires dEspagne Nos 1 to 5 Confédération | 1 |
Reliques of Robert Burns consisting chiefly of original | 19 |
Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born | 36 |
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| Pealkiri | The Quarterly Review, 1. köide |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1809 |
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