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...cient learning; and promised to patronize it when published.

But if anything within these pages is acceptable to the public, they are indebted to Your Lordship for its being published sooner than I had intended myself. Out of that innate love of literature original: letters; referring to scholarly learning and the arts. which inspires the PEMBROKES, you thought it fit to prompt and encourage me to print this work. Your Lordship’s judgment will serve as a favorable endorsement original: agreeable prejudice; meaning a positive pre-judgment or bias that helps the author's reputation. in my favor, as you have cultivated your own excellent talents through your own hard work and through everything that can be learned from a careful observation original: curious view; meaning scholarly or inquisitive study. of the antiquities of Italy. You are, in every sense, a master of that immense treasure of Greek and Roman marbles which make Wilton Wilton: Wilton House, the country seat of the Earls of Pembroke, famous for its art collection and architecture. a Rome beyond the mountains original: Tramontane Rome; 'Tramontane' refers to the area north of the Alps; here it means a center of classical culture located in England..

In addition to that learning which is the ornament of the present age, Your Lordship knows how to truly value the antiquities specific to your own country. Even if they lack original: want; here meaning to lack or be without. some of the refinement of the Augustan times Augustan times: The era of the Roman Emperor Augustus, considered a golden age of art and literature., or that of Alexander the Great; they still possess their own beauties, and even elegances, which appeal to a taste as exquisite as Your Lordship’s. There is a symmetry and harmony of parts, an amazing grandeur in the design, and the incredible force of the mechanical powers mechanick powers: The physical forces or engineering techniques used to move and place massive stones, such as in ancient monuments. employed in them, the most