A K T I CL_U I T I I 3. 531 



C H A P. X. 



ANTIOUITIKS 



WE fhould not confound in our ideas the 

 different terms of Antiquities and An- 

 tiques. By antiquities are meant all tefti monies 

 or authentic accounts, that have come down to 

 us, of ancient nations -, and by antiques, thole 

 precious works in painting, architecture, fculp- 

 ture, and graving, that were made from the time 

 of Alexander the Great, to that of the emperor 

 Phocas, and the devaftations of the barbarians ; 

 that time has fpared and has committed to our 

 care, and which are the ornaments of our cabi- 

 nets and galleries, and fometimes of the gardens 

 of princes. Antiques therefore make only a part 

 of antiquities, and the latter form a very exten- 

 five fciencc, including " an hiflorical knowledge- 

 of the edifices, magiftrates, offices, habiliments, 

 manners, cuftoms, ceremonies, worfhip, and 

 other objects worthy of curiofiry, of all the prin- 

 cipal ancient nations of the earth." 



II. This fcience, therefore, is not a matter of 

 mere curiofity, bin is indifpeniable to the thco- 



