The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (3.1789)

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known, their efficacy would be denied) I am
not afraid, that the facility of the rules I have
laid down, ssiould hinder either their appli-
cation, or their popularity, since, I think, to
say of principles they are corredt, and to add
to corredtness, simple and easy, is the highest
panegyric of scientific instrudtion.
A panegyric on the principles of Perspedtive
would be a noble subjedt for the eloquence of
an orator! he might shew its wonders in the
microscope, which renders visible, animalcule
thousands of times too small for human vision;
he might congratulate his hearers on its uti-
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lity as connected with our daily occupations,
and exigencies; he might trace its effedt in
the solar orb, and observe the peculiarity of
the planetary ffiadows: He might demon-
strate the connedtion of perspective with the
azure heavens, and calculate thereby the various
stations of the stellar fires he might amaze his
hearers with the dislances of the brightest, and
astonissi them at the intervals of the paler:
those but discernible by the art of man, he
might express by the days, or the weeks, or the
months, of the passage of their light; and might
venture—No, let him (land rapt in reverence
to that power and goodness, which has imparted
to humanity such intelledhial capacity, and ener-
getic genius !
End of the Lectures on Perspective.

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