The Historic Medals of Canada

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Excerpt from The Historic Medals of Canada: A Paper Read Before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, April 9, 1873Well supplied by them. It is the thirst for novelty that makes man so curious in his researches into antiquity, and hence arises the pleasure derived from medals, displaying, as they do, the faces and forms of persons with whom history has made us so familiar, that we long to see the shapes and aspects of the bodies they inhabited, and the faces on which their minds and characters were impressed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.