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Excerpt from Dictionarium Polygraphicum, or the Whole Body of Arts, Regularly Digested, Vol. 2: Containing, I. The Arts of Designing, Drawing, Painting, Washing Prints, Limning, Japanning, Gilding in All Their Various Kinds; Also Perspective, the Laws of Shadows, Dialling, &C.; II. Carving, Cutting in Wood, Stone
The two faces of Janus fr/gnify time the one, being withered and hoary, {hews time pail; the other, youthful and bearded, time to come.
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