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Página 436 - I found myself in the midst of works executed upon principles with which I was unacquainted ; I felt my ignorance, and stood abashed. All the indigested notions of painting which I had brought with me from England, where the art was in the lowest state it had ever been in, (it could not, indeed, be lower,) were to be totally done away, and eradicated from my mind. It was necessary, as it is expressed on a very solemn occasion, that I should become as a little child.
Página 378 - An English rector, who, though very rich and living in great style, is sincere and in earnest, confessed to me that there are some abuses, and that the terrestrial paradise to which they have the sole entrance, is rather too good. He told me moreover, that the government ought most carefully to guard against any political crisis, for that the various religious sects are all arrayed against the church, and would certainly encrease the confusion ; especially the more puritanical ones, who, said he,...
Página 383 - Dissenters, it should be remembered that the Bible was the foundation of their religious belief, as well as that of the Established Church, and was or might be in the hands of every member of the Empire.
Página 383 - However we might lament what we conceived to be the errors of Protestant dissenters, it was to be recollected that the Bible was the fountain of their religious belief as well as that of the established church, and was, or might be, in the hand of every member of the empire ; and it was to be recollected also, that the best of interpretations were but the interpretations of men, and that the best of men were liable to error.
Página 436 - I should become as a little child. — Notwithstanding my disappointment, I proceeded to copy some of those excellent works. I viewed them again and again ; I even affected to feel their merit, and to admire them, more than I really did.
Página 352 - ... of the English. I have had the good fortune of being admitted into society of all, or nearly all classes, and I have remarked that etiquette and precedence are observed in so rigorous a manner, as could only arise from inveterate and habitual aristocracy of feeling and opinion. In the most humble cottages, every one takes the place assigned him by his respective class, and with a suitable deportment.
Página lxxii - I considered illustrative and useful : and the real forms and dimensions of objects do not differ from my descriptions, except just so far as to prevent their appearing insipid and monotonous.