 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1778 - 346 pages
...GENTLEMEN, Your moft humble, and obedient Servant, * JOSHUA REYNOLDS, t 5 DISCOURSE, GENTLEMEN, AN Academy, in which the Polite Arts may be regularly cultivated, is at laft opened among us by ROYAL Munificence. This muft appear an event in the higheft degree interefting,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1778 - 360 pages
...GENTLEMEN> Your moft humble, and obedient Servant, JOSHUA REYNOLDS, A DISCOURSE, &c. * • • GENTLEMEN, AN Academy, in which the Polite Arts may be regularly cultivated, is at laft opened among us by ROYAL Munificence. This muft appear an event in the higheft degree interefting,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 476 pages
...CONSTANTLY RECOMMENDED, AND (THAT IT MAY BE EFFECTUAL) DIRECTED TO ITS PROPER OBJECT. GENTLEMEN, » AN Academy, in which the Polite Arts may be regularly...wanted an ornament so suitable to its greatness, than that slow progression of things, which naturally makes elegance and refinement the last effect of opulence... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...CONSTANTLY RECOMMENDED, AND (THAT IT MAY BE EFFECTUAL) DIRECTED TO ITS PROPER OBJECT. GENTLEMEN, AN Academy, in which the Polite Arts may be regularly...in the highest degree interesting, not only to the Artist, but to the whole nation. It is indeed difficult to give any other reason, why an empire like... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...CONSTANTLY RECOMMENDED, AND (THAT IT MAY BE EFFECTUAL) DIRECTED TO ITS PROPER OBJECT. GENTLEMEN, AN Academy, in which the Polite Arts may be regularly...in the highest degree interesting, not only to the Artist, but to the whole nation. It is indeed difficult to give any other reason, why an empire like... | |
 | James Northcote - Art - 1819 - 382 pages
...extraordinary circumstance of such an institution not having been before established, he observed, that " It is, indeed, difficult to give any other reason...wanted an ornament so suitable to its greatness, than that slow progression of things which naturally makes elegance and refinement the last effect of opulence... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...constantly recommended, and (that it may be effectual) directed to its proper object, GENTLEMEN, AN Academy, in which the Polite Arts may be regularly...in the highest degree interesting, not only to the Artist, but to the whole nation. It is indeed difficult to give any other reason, why an empire like... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...constantly recommended, and (that it may be effectual) directed to its proper object. GENTLEMEN, AN Academy, in which the Polite Arts may be regularly...in the highest degree interesting, not only to the Artist, but to the whole nation. It is indeed difficult to give any other reason, why an empire like... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...CONSTANTLY RECOMMENDED, AND (THAT IT MAY BE EFFECTUAL) DIRECTED TO ITS PROPER. OBJECT. GENTLEMEN, AN Academy, in which the Polite Arts may be regularly...in the highest degree interesting, not only to the Artist, but to the whole nation. It is indeed difficult to give any other reason, why an empire like... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Artists - 1824 - 318 pages
...CONSTANTLY RECOMMENDED, AND (THAT IT MAY BE EFFECTUAL) DIRECTED TO ITS PROPER OBJECT. GENTLEMEN, AN Academy, in which the Polite Arts may be regularly...in the highest degree interesting, not only to the Artist, but to the whole nation. It is indeed difficult to give any other reason, why an empire like... | |
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It is indeed difficult to give any other reason why an empire like that of Britain should so long have wanted an ornament so suitable to its greatness, than that slow progression of things which naturally makes elegance and refinement the last effect... 
