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... Nature herfelf prefents every day to my fight ; - -but I can never conceive an object on canvass to be natural , that is flat ; it can never de- ceive my fight if it wants Relief . Without That , though the colours of a Painting may be ...
... Nature herfelf prefents every day to my fight ; - -but I can never conceive an object on canvass to be natural , that is flat ; it can never de- ceive my fight if it wants Relief . Without That , though the colours of a Painting may be ...
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... nature , not to take amifs any friendly advife that is given you . It is not many years ago , fince . I used the ... natural , finished in the light and highly executed , I overlook many de- fects in the rest of the figure , and al- moft ...
... nature , not to take amifs any friendly advife that is given you . It is not many years ago , fince . I used the ... natural , finished in the light and highly executed , I overlook many de- fects in the rest of the figure , and al- moft ...
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... nature of a visible or audible object , are immediately , and all together , without any formal train of reafoning , fuggefted to the mind on the first impreffion made on the organ . That fuch a noife ( fays the acute and learned Dr ...
... nature of a visible or audible object , are immediately , and all together , without any formal train of reafoning , fuggefted to the mind on the first impreffion made on the organ . That fuch a noife ( fays the acute and learned Dr ...
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... nature's works . Contemplate and adore That POW'R SUPREME , who , out of nothing , call'd The whole ! The SOURCE of life ! FOUNTAIN of good ! Whofe prefence fills all pace . Who was , and is , 1 And ftill will be when time exifts no ...
... nature's works . Contemplate and adore That POW'R SUPREME , who , out of nothing , call'd The whole ! The SOURCE of life ! FOUNTAIN of good ! Whofe prefence fills all pace . Who was , and is , 1 And ftill will be when time exifts no ...
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... nature made by the Nabob to the factory ? --- A . There was a trifling circumftance , of a gentle- man's erecting a fummer - houfe in his garden , which had been represented to the Nabob as a fortification ; which was explained to the ...
... nature made by the Nabob to the factory ? --- A . There was a trifling circumftance , of a gentle- man's erecting a fummer - houfe in his garden , which had been represented to the Nabob as a fortification ; which was explained to the ...
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