. The craftsman. pe to fee compleated by fomematerly Hand^ and which, if it is well executed, willoutfhine even Plinys Panegyrick itfelf, I defign*d to have added fome Obfervations on a fub-ordinate Race of Upjlarts, commonly calld Scrubs,who always fwarm in great Numbers, where the otherare in Powea, and take their Name from doing theirdirty Work. But as This would carry Me beyondthe Bounds of a Letter, I mull referye it for anotherOpportunity, and am, SIR, Yours, Sec, ^ NOVICOLA. N^ 457. Saturday, ^pril^^ 1735. Oh f nxjhenjhall Britain, confcious of her Claim,Stand emulous of Greek and Roman
. The craftsman. pe to fee compleated by fomematerly Hand^ and which, if it is well executed, willoutfhine even Plinys Panegyrick itfelf, I defign*d to have added fome Obfervations on a fub-ordinate Race of Upjlarts, commonly calld Scrubs,who always fwarm in great Numbers, where the otherare in Powea, and take their Name from doing theirdirty Work. But as This would carry Me beyondthe Bounds of a Letter, I mull referye it for anotherOpportunity, and am, SIR, Yours, Sec, ^ NOVICOLA. N^ 457. Saturday, ^pril^^ 1735. Oh f nxjhenjhall Britain, confcious of her Claim,Stand emulous of Greek and Roman Fame ?In living Medals fee her Wars enroWd,And janquijhd Realms fupply recording Gold ?_ Pope, ?^ CALEB DANVERS, £yj; Sir, Have juft been reading over Mr. JddifonsDialogues upon Medals, and thoughevery Page of that excellent Treatife isfull of Beauty and Learning, I am par- . „ . __^ ticularly pleafed with the follov/ing Paf- age, where He is giving us a Parallel between antient X)A modern Medals. ^m * Before. 264 2^^ Craftsman. N0457. « Before I enter upon this Subjeft, fays Philander,<« I muft tell You, by Way of Preliminary, that for** merly there was no Diference between Money and«» Medals. An old Roman had his Purfe full of the<* fame Pieces, that We now preferve in Cabinets. As* foon at an Emperor had done any Thing remarka-^* ble, it was immediately ftampMon a Cw«, and bc-* came current through his whole Dominions. It was a*« pretty Contrivance, {zysCynthio, to fpread abroaii•* the Virtues of an Emperor, and make his Adiofisi« circulate. Afrefl} Coin was a Kind of GazetH,« that publilh*d the lateft News of the Empire. 1*« ftiould fancy your Roman Bankers were very good« Hijiorians. It is certain, fays i?«^^Kz«j, They might<* find their Profit and Inilrudtion mixd together. I«* have often wonderd that no Nation among the Mo-^ derns hath imitated the antient Romans in this Parti-*« cular. I know no other Way of fecuring thefe** Kinds of Monumen
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