Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . MS I o A [2] s G S. NAPLES. 163 And this is the true writing of all thofe letters; of which Itook particular notice; becaufe that for the C [the old sj inXC a great man happening to read O, explains that to have Bp. Burnet,been once a 0, and the little line in the bofom of it to havebeen worn out: and upon that fuppofition takes the whole in-fcriprion to have imported m*f x?irit Nik*, Jefus ChriftGODovercometh. It is eafieft tofuppofeit always tohave been, as it appears now, without
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . MS I o A [2] s G S. NAPLES. 163 And this is the true writing of all thofe letters; of which Itook particular notice; becaufe that for the C [the old sj inXC a great man happening to read O, explains that to have Bp. Burnet,been once a 0, and the little line in the bofom of it to havebeen worn out: and upon that fuppofition takes the whole in-fcriprion to have imported m*f x?irit Nik*, Jefus ChriftGODovercometh. It is eafieft tofuppofeit always tohave been, as it appears now, without any thing intended for©fflV; and then both thecontradions will be alike in thofe twofirft words; the line at top feeming as it were 10 tack togetherthe initial and final letters of the words intended in each? The Mofaic in thefe catacombs, which has been fo muchdeftroyed, muft have been very much older than the paintings,or have been done in an age when the art of making the ce-ment for it was not well underftood. This vaft fubterraneouswork feems likely to have been carried on in feveral fuccefiiveages, proceeding fti
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