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Excerpt from A Catechism of Mythology: Containing a Compendious History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes, Indispensable to a Correct Knowledge of the Ancient Poets and the Classics As an object of faith, the countless throng of the heathen gods, when compared with the God of Chris tian's, appears fantastical and preposterous; but the ele gant and agreeable fictions which Mythology fur nishes, ar'e admirably suited to the purposes of poetry, statuary, and painting. The elegant, the beautiful, the graceful, the lovely, the amorous, the novel, the romantic, the marvellous, the fairy, the fantastical, the sublime - these are the feasts in which imagination revels; the beauties and the terrors of creation; - to survey forests, precipices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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