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Excerpt from The Museum of Classical Antiquities: Being a Series of Essays on Ancient Art Though we owe much to the Older antiquaries, many of Whom devoted their entire lives to collecting the scattered notices of antiquity, it was not till the beginning Of the present century that these studies became serviceable to art, having been previously pursued without a knowledge of those principles on which true art is founded and dependent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.