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He was a man who courted criticism, and who was unenvious of the fame of rivals. Martial, xxx. 9. Ovid, Art. Anc. iii. 403. After Apelles, the art of painting declined, although great painters occasionally appeared, especially from the school of Sicyon, which was renowned for nearly two hundred years. The destruction of Corinth by Mummius, B.C. 146, gave a severe blow to Grecian art.
These are the principles, whatever modifications they may require, which, however rudely adumbrated, I trust will suffice to enable me to contemplate the future of the Ottoman Empire. Robertson's America, books vi. and vii. Univ. Hist. Anc., vol. xvi. Merivale's Rome, vol. ii. Guizot's European Civilization. Gibbon, vol x. Philosophy of History; Robertson's translation.
Dissert. on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, in the Pamphleteer, vol. viii. p. 53. Symbol. und Mythol. der Alt. Völk. In these Mysteries, after the people had for a long time bewailed the loss of a particular person, he was at last supposed to be restored to life. BRYANT, Anal. of Anc. Mythology, vol. iii. p. 176. Herod. Hist., lib. iii. c. clxxi.
Thou art instructed, yet thou knowest it not; this makes me afraid." Birch, Zeitschrift, 1871, pp. 61-64. Papyrus Anastasi I, pl. X. 1. 8, pl. Maspero, Hist. Anc., pp. 66-67. "'I go, she said, and I trembled as she spoke, for no man speaks in this language when he has any good thought in his heart.
"The most early defection to Idolatry," says Bryant, "consisted in the adoration of the sun and the worship of demons, styled Baalim." Analysts of Anc. Mythol. vol. iii. p. 431. The remarks of Mr. Duncan on this subject are well worth perusal. "Light has always formed one of the primary objects of heathen adoration.
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