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... labours to indite their disapprobation of the labours of my brethren of the Brush . You must know there is a young man in this me- tropolis who is now emerging from obfcurity in a most ex- . traordinary manner ; his name is MORLAND : he ...
... labours to indite their disapprobation of the labours of my brethren of the Brush . You must know there is a young man in this me- tropolis who is now emerging from obfcurity in a most ex- . traordinary manner ; his name is MORLAND : he ...
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... labours ; much lefs in the labours of those who have all his ambition with not half of his worldly fubtlety , and all his failings with not half of his impofing knowledge . Mr. WEST . Mr. BENJAMIN WEST is a native of Philadelphia in the ...
... labours ; much lefs in the labours of those who have all his ambition with not half of his worldly fubtlety , and all his failings with not half of his impofing knowledge . Mr. WEST . Mr. BENJAMIN WEST is a native of Philadelphia in the ...
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... labours ; they are rather juftly mechanical than illuminated . But the gift to be fentimental in marble is an inborn emanation , which no Briton ever poffeffed , as a sculp- tor , in fo eminent a degree as the meritorious , but ...
... labours ; they are rather juftly mechanical than illuminated . But the gift to be fentimental in marble is an inborn emanation , which no Briton ever poffeffed , as a sculp- tor , in fo eminent a degree as the meritorious , but ...
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