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Identifier: encyclopediaofan01fosb (find matches)
Title: Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley, 1770-1842
Subjects: Classical antiquities Civilization, Medieval
Publisher: London : M. A. Nattali
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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London : J. B. Nicbols and Son, Printers, 25, Parliament Street. J^ 1> THE LIBRARYUNIVERSITY OF C AI.IFORMA Santa Barbara THIS BOOK IS DIE ON THE LAST DATESTAMPED BELOW. lOOM 11/86 Series 9482 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinn D 000 749 379 4 3 1205 01173 1500
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Wnlford Churvh, PREFACE. Madame de Stael says, * The erudition derived from Archseologyis far more animated than that we acquire from books; we seem torevive what we unveil; and the past appears to rise from the dustwhich concealed it. This passion for antiquity is no idle prejudice.We live in an age, when self-interest seems the ruling principle ofall men ; what sympathy, what enthusiasm can ever be its results ? *Again, Antiquity inspires insatiable curiosity. To penetrate thepast, interrogate the human heart through many ages ; to seize ona fact in a word, and on the manners or character of a nation in afact; to re-enter the most distant time, in order to conceive howthe earth looked in its youth, and in what way men supported thelife, which civilisation has since rendered so complicated. Thiswere a continual effort of imagination, whose guesses discoversecrets that study and reflection cannot reveal.-(^ But it has been frequently observed, that Archaeology is a sciencewhich, in it

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