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PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE. 9
upon his attention and curiosity to allow
him to devote his time to cabinet studies.
Information there, is to be gathered, not
from sedentary application, but from active
research and observation. One day is de-
voted to the contemplation of churches or
ruins, the next is passed in the examination
of pictures, a third is dedicated to a groupe
of ancient statues, and a fourth and a fifth
are agreeably spent in the galleries or the
gardens of a villa ; then excursions are to
be made to spots consecrated by history or
by song, to Horace's Sabine farm or to
Virgil's tomb, to Tibur or Tusculum, to
Fesole, or Vallombrosa. In these delightful
and instructive occupations, days, weeks,
and months glide away with imperceptible
rapidity, and the few leisure hours that may
chance to occur at intervals are scarcely
sufficient to give the diligent traveller time
to collect his remarks and to embody his
recollections. Let him, therefore, who
upon his attention and curiosity to allow
him to devote his time to cabinet studies.
Information there, is to be gathered, not
from sedentary application, but from active
research and observation. One day is de-
voted to the contemplation of churches or
ruins, the next is passed in the examination
of pictures, a third is dedicated to a groupe
of ancient statues, and a fourth and a fifth
are agreeably spent in the galleries or the
gardens of a villa ; then excursions are to
be made to spots consecrated by history or
by song, to Horace's Sabine farm or to
Virgil's tomb, to Tibur or Tusculum, to
Fesole, or Vallombrosa. In these delightful
and instructive occupations, days, weeks,
and months glide away with imperceptible
rapidity, and the few leisure hours that may
chance to occur at intervals are scarcely
sufficient to give the diligent traveller time
to collect his remarks and to embody his
recollections. Let him, therefore, who