THE ELGIN MARBLES.

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These beautiful relics of Grecian antiquity cost the Earl of Elgin 74,000l., of which sum he barely received one-half from Government; so that Lord Byron's imputation to the Earl of a mercantile spirit in the transaction is notoriously unjust.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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