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| | Newman Reader - Callista - Chapter 5 |
 | | All tastes were suited, the popular and the refined, the fashion of the day and the love of the antique, the classical and the barbarian devotion. |
 | | There, too, were the unmeaning blocks of stone with human heads, which were to be dressed out in rich robes, and to simulate the human form. |
 | | Beyond are the numerous chapels and fanes which fringe the base of the Capitoline hill; the tall column of Antoninus comes next, with its adjacent basilica, where is kept the authentic list of the provinces of the empire, and of the governors, each a king in power and dominion, who are sent out to them. |
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