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... 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 uncommonly beauti- ful , and it's Drawing moft elegant and A ...
... 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 uncommonly beauti- ful , and it's Drawing moft elegant and A ...
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... never fancy myself with- out company . I acknowledge that this rule of Painting the eyes of a Portrait look- ing on the fpectators , cramps the ge- nius of the Painter , and confines him to a small variety of attitudes . But for the ...
... never fancy myself with- out company . I acknowledge that this rule of Painting the eyes of a Portrait look- ing on the fpectators , cramps the ge- nius of the Painter , and confines him to a small variety of attitudes . But for the ...
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... never hints at any impropriety of conduct in the grand monarque , who is confidered by every Frenchman , as the greatest and most perfect being up- on earth . I do not recommend to Eng- lifhmen the example of the fabjects of a defpotic ...
... never hints at any impropriety of conduct in the grand monarque , who is confidered by every Frenchman , as the greatest and most perfect being up- on earth . I do not recommend to Eng- lifhmen the example of the fabjects of a defpotic ...
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... never fo diftreffed as at the prefent moment . The cafe is obvious : Our people are taught by the very legisla- ture to have feparate views , instead of one general intereft ; and , of course , in- ftead of endeavouring to under - fell ...
... never fo diftreffed as at the prefent moment . The cafe is obvious : Our people are taught by the very legisla- ture to have feparate views , instead of one general intereft ; and , of course , in- ftead of endeavouring to under - fell ...
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... never faw him . A few days after , when Mr Drake returned , I delivered him the letter . I was the third in council , afe - keeper , at Calcutta , next ke on the spot at Calcutta . s not in the power of any In the reafons for the origin ...
... never faw him . A few days after , when Mr Drake returned , I delivered him the letter . I was the third in council , afe - keeper , at Calcutta , next ke on the spot at Calcutta . s not in the power of any In the reafons for the origin ...
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