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  • Like all other nations in whom were combined great means and opulence where - with to foment the exuberances of fashion, and little taste through wliich to check its prurien - cies, the Romans carried to a great pitch the shapeless extravagance of some parts of their

    Costume of the ancients Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831 1812

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