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inferences, and in forming from thence an inge- 

 nious and rational iyftem. It is manifeft, more- 

 Over, that the ftudy of antiquities muft be vaftly 

 extenfive^ when we confider that all the articles 

 we have enumerated for one people, muft be ex- 

 tended to all the nations of antiquity, and that 

 we mult know them, as if, in a manner, we had 

 lived among them. But this is a knowledge 

 that it would have been impoffible for any one 

 man whatever ro have attained, if our predecef- 

 fors had not prepared the way for us ; if they 

 had not left us fuch ineftimabk works as thofe 

 of Gfonovius, Graevius, Mcntfaucon, count 

 Caylus, Winckelmann, the Hebraic antiquities 

 of D. Ikea of Bremen, the Grecian antiquities of 

 Brunings, the Roman antiquities of Nieupoort, 

 and efpecially that work which is intitled Biblio- 

 graphia Antiquaria Job. Alberti Fabricii, pro- 

 feflbr at Hamburg. 



XIV. Nor muft we here forget that very 

 valuable work, with which Mr. Robert Wood, 

 an Englimman, has lately enriched this fcience, 

 and which is fo well known, and fo juftly efteem-. 

 ed by all true connoiffeurs, under the title of 

 the Ruins of Palmyra, and thole of Balbeck. It 

 is by this work that we are fully convinced of 

 the grandeur and magnificence, the tafte and 

 elegance of the buildings of the ancients. We 

 here fee that the invention of thefe matters is 

 not all owing to the Greeks, but that there were 

 other nations who ferved them as models. For 



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