I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
By the known rules of antient libertie,
When strait a barbarous noise environs me

The trial by jury, your Lordship knows, is so antient a privilege belonging to mankind, that its origin cannot properly be traced.

The choral and orchestral concerts at the Antient Concert Rooms were of more than usual interest.

Our voyagers make beasts under the name of Pongos, Mandrills, and Orang-Outang, of the very beings, which the antients exalted into divinities under the name of Satyrs, Fauns, and Sylvans.

We likewise see by the valuable Work of Andrew Burdon, professor of the Royal French Academy of Painting, that the Antients occasionally used the Amphora form in other parts of the world as both cinereous and lachrymal urns; […]

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