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to be doubted, that Britain has at present Abundant Advantages over her illustrious Rival is unquestionable, Rome had only Greece to look up to as her Tutoress & Directress in the fine arts, Britain has the Labors of Greece & those of Rome Equaly laid open to her for before her for imitation & improvement & besides This the lapse of the Three last Centuries by the united Effort of all Civilisd Europe have opend to her the Enjoyment view of a mass of human knowledge utterly unknown to the ancients, the magnitude immensity of which must astonish all who Contemplate its immensity magnitude when Compard with the whole amount Total sum of all That was known before Printing was brought into use with this advantage Can we doubt that the minds intellects of the Present generation are more expanded & their Energies more Effective than those of our Remote predecessors were Two thousand years ago when their minds were Clouded by ignorance & oppressd by a thousand abundant prejudices which the splendid discoveries of their distant successors have not utterly & effectualy done away
The Principles of an monetary Emblematic Language are not dificult to be evolved, to suggest them is the province of a man of Prose. The invention of the Emblems themselves must be consignd to the Poet & the execution of them to the Painter, They must consist of animate & inanimate things, but each must be so clearly & decisively applicable to the Idea they are it is intended to Represent, that a moderate share of sagacity may not unfrequently be able to discover the allusions when this is the case the meaning of each Emblem Idea intention meaning will be quickly propagated & Long Rememberd, Every one who discovers it will have a pleasure in boasting to his neighbor of his ingenuity & his neighbor will, if amusd by the propriety of the application, circulate the knowledge of it far & wide.