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" The travellers into the East tell us, that when the ignorant inhabitants of those countries are asked concerning the ruins of stately edifices yet remaining amongst them, the melancholy monuments of their former grandeur and long-lost science, they always... "
Researches in the south of Ireland, with an appendix [by J. Adams ... - Page 260
by Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 40 pages
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Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy by the President

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1778 - 360 pages
...they were built by magicians. The untaught mind finds a vaft gulph between its own powers, and thefe works of complicated art, which it is utterly unable to fathom : And it fuppofes that fuch 03 a void a void can be pafled only by fupernatural powers, AND, as for Artifts...
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Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1778 - 346 pages
...they were built by magicians. The untaught mind finds a vaft gulph between its own powers, and thefe works of complicated art, which it is utterly unable to fathom : And it fuppofes that fuch -. VO 3 a void [ 198 ] a void can be paffed only by fupernatural powers. AND, as...
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ...: Containing His ..., Volume 1

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...edifices yet remaining amongst them, the melancholy monuments of their former grandeur and long-lost science, they always answer, that they were built...unable to fathom; and it supposes that such a void can be passed only by supernatural powers. And, as for artists themselves, it is by no means their interest...
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Volume 1

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 476 pages
...edifices yet remaining amongst them, the melancholy monuments of their former grandeur and long-lost science, they always answer, that they were built...unable to fathom; and it supposes that such a void can be passed only by supernatural powers. And, as for artists themselves, it is by no means their interest...
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The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Kt. Late President of the Royal ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...edifices yet remaining amongst them, the melancholy monuments of their former grandeur and long-lost science, they always answer, that they were built...unable to fathom ; and it supposes that such a void can be passed only by supernatural powers. And, as for artists themselves, it is by no meanstheir interest...
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The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ...: Containing His ..., Volume 1

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...edifices yet remaining amongst them, the melancholy monuments of their former grandeur and long-lost science, they always answer, that they were built...unable to fathom ; and it supposes that such a void can be passed only by supernatural powers. And, as for artists themselves, it is by no means their interest...
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The British Prose Writers...: Sir J. Reynolds's discourses

British prose literature - 1819 - 332 pages
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The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...edifices yet remaining amongst them, the melancholy monuments of their former grandeur and long-lost science, they always answer, that they were built...unable to fathom ; and it supposes that such a void can be passed only by supernatural powers. And, as for artists themselves, it is by no means their interest...
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The complete works of sir Joshua Reynolds, with an orig. memoir and ...

sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...edifices yet remaining amongst them, the melancholy monuments of their former grandeur and long-lost science, they always answer, that they were built...those works of complicated art, which it is utterly uuable to fathom ; and it supposes that such a void can be passed only by supernatural powers. And,...
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The Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe: Illus. Principally from ..., Volume 1

Robert Vaughan, John Wycliffe - Lollards - 1828 - 472 pages
...inhabitants of those countries are interrogated concerning the ruins of stately edifices yet remaining among them, the melancholy monuments of their former grandeur...built by magicians. The untaught mind finds a vast gulf between its own powers and those works of complicated art, which it is utterly unable to fathom,...
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