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... ornament of the Didymeon at Athens : an Apollo thus holding a stag , the hind feet of which were so ingeniously contrived by means of springs and hinges in the toes , that a thread could be passed between them and the base on which they ...
... ornament of the Didymeon at Athens : an Apollo thus holding a stag , the hind feet of which were so ingeniously contrived by means of springs and hinges in the toes , that a thread could be passed between them and the base on which they ...
Page xxi
... ornaments intended , from their origin , to form a part of the crown jewels of France , never reverted to the Paris Cabinet of Antiques after the fall of the Empress , but were subsequently to her decease dispersed amongst the various ...
... ornaments intended , from their origin , to form a part of the crown jewels of France , never reverted to the Paris Cabinet of Antiques after the fall of the Empress , but were subsequently to her decease dispersed amongst the various ...
Page xxxiii
... ornament . This silence on the part of the Greek mytho- graphers , always ready as they were to claim for their own countrymen the credit of every discovery or invention in science or manufactures , even when evidently due to foreigners ...
... ornament . This silence on the part of the Greek mytho- graphers , always ready as they were to claim for their own countrymen the credit of every discovery or invention in science or manufactures , even when evidently due to foreigners ...
Page xxxiv
... ornaments ; and as a still more convincing proof that they were not known in his age , whenever he speaks of the securing of treasures it is always as being effected by means of an artfully tied knot only understood by the fastener ...
... ornaments ; and as a still more convincing proof that they were not known in his age , whenever he speaks of the securing of treasures it is always as being effected by means of an artfully tied knot only understood by the fastener ...
Page xxxvii
... ornaments and jewellery with the inhabitants ( Odys . xv . 460 ) ; and the first intagli produced amongst the cities of the sea - board still bear the impress of an Assyrian origin in the stiff drawing yet careful execution of the ...
... ornaments and jewellery with the inhabitants ( Odys . xv . 460 ) ; and the first intagli produced amongst the cities of the sea - board still bear the impress of an Assyrian origin in the stiff drawing yet careful execution of the ...
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