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PREFACE. IX
same, and that the researches of both had one ultimate object.
At the same time he thinks he has some cause to complain of this
learned foreigner, for condemning in the gross, before he had him-
self perused the original work of the author; and for advancing
a complaint of a paucity of proofs adduced, and those partially
selected, to the exclusion of a greater number that would, as he
imagined, have controverted the author's scheme. The Cav.
Inghirami, however, has had the candour to quote a passage from
another distinguished antiquary, Mr. Vermiglioli, who had re-
proved the learned foreigner for having attached himself to what he
terms the " Sistema emanato dal Christie."* This, then, is sufficient
for the author. It is possible that he may have erred, by adher-
ing too closely to the Horatian precept respecting brevity f; but,
if from a small selection of proofs, which were designed by him
as illustrations of so many different classes dependent upon them,
and with a scanty proportion of letter-press, he has obtained
results that do not differ widely from those which the Cav.
Inghirami has arrived at, in a quarto volume of no ordinary bulk,
he presumes this learned foreigner will allow him the merit of
having turned his materials, such as they were, to a good account,
with as little inconvenience as possible to the reader. He is
content with such an acknowledgment, that this systematic view
of the subject had been long ago adopted by him, and he very
cheerfully leaves the defence of the system to so powerful a cham-
pion as the Cav. Inghirami.
* Vasi Fittili, vol. v. p. 4-88. Mr. Vermiglioli does the writer too much honour.
It was Charles Towneley, Esq. who first observed a mystic theology in works of
Grecian art. He, jointly with the late R. P. Knight, Esq., furnished D'Hancarville
with a great part of the materials of his quarto work on the Esprit dcs Arts dela Grecc.
f Quicquid pra;cipies, esto brevis.- De Arte Poet.
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same, and that the researches of both had one ultimate object.
At the same time he thinks he has some cause to complain of this
learned foreigner, for condemning in the gross, before he had him-
self perused the original work of the author; and for advancing
a complaint of a paucity of proofs adduced, and those partially
selected, to the exclusion of a greater number that would, as he
imagined, have controverted the author's scheme. The Cav.
Inghirami, however, has had the candour to quote a passage from
another distinguished antiquary, Mr. Vermiglioli, who had re-
proved the learned foreigner for having attached himself to what he
terms the " Sistema emanato dal Christie."* This, then, is sufficient
for the author. It is possible that he may have erred, by adher-
ing too closely to the Horatian precept respecting brevity f; but,
if from a small selection of proofs, which were designed by him
as illustrations of so many different classes dependent upon them,
and with a scanty proportion of letter-press, he has obtained
results that do not differ widely from those which the Cav.
Inghirami has arrived at, in a quarto volume of no ordinary bulk,
he presumes this learned foreigner will allow him the merit of
having turned his materials, such as they were, to a good account,
with as little inconvenience as possible to the reader. He is
content with such an acknowledgment, that this systematic view
of the subject had been long ago adopted by him, and he very
cheerfully leaves the defence of the system to so powerful a cham-
pion as the Cav. Inghirami.
* Vasi Fittili, vol. v. p. 4-88. Mr. Vermiglioli does the writer too much honour.
It was Charles Towneley, Esq. who first observed a mystic theology in works of
Grecian art. He, jointly with the late R. P. Knight, Esq., furnished D'Hancarville
with a great part of the materials of his quarto work on the Esprit dcs Arts dela Grecc.
f Quicquid pra;cipies, esto brevis.- De Arte Poet.
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