The Philosophical Magazine and Journal: Comprehending Various Branches of Science, the Liberal and Fine Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce, Volume 47Richard Taylor and Company, 1816 - Physics |
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Page 146 - ... before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible aliment they furnish to our own thoughts, and the sympathetic activity they impart to our torpid faculties...
Page 148 - Edward the first: for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy; after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times.
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Page 224 - ... hereafter permitted to form permanent residences to themselves at this place will have the highly important advantages of a rich and fertile soil, with a beautiful river flowing through it, for all the uses of man. The Governor must however add, that the hopes which were once so sanguinely entertained of this river becoming navigable to the Western Sea have ended in disappointment.
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Page 275 - Elgin, that he was willing to propose to parliament to purchase it for 30,000/. provided Lord Elgin should make out, to the satisfaction of a committee of the house of commons, that he had expended so much in, 'acquiring and transporting it. Lord Elgin declined this proposal, for the reasons stated by him in...
Page 272 - Knight, whose valuation will be referred to in a subsequent page, the first class is not assigned to the two principal statues of this Collection ; but he rates the Metopes in the first class of works in High Relief, and knows of nothing so fine in that kind. He places also the Frize in the first class of Low Relief; and considering a general Museum of Art to be very desirable, he looks upon such an addition to our national collection as likely to contribute to the improvement of the Arts, and to...
Page 273 - ... him to do so, whenever the disbursements have exceeded the fair money price of that which he has to dispose of. Your Committee refer to Lord Elgin's evidence for the large and heavy charges which have attended the formation of this Collection, and the placing of it in its present situation ; which amount, from 1799 to January 1803, to...
Page 272 - The competitors in the market, if it should be offered for sale without separation, could not be numerous. Some of the sovereigns of Europe, added to such of the great galleries or national institutions in various parts of the continent, as may possess funds at the disposal of their directors sufficient for such a purpose, would in all probability be the only purchasers. It is not, however, reasonable nor becoming the liberality of Parliament to withhold upon this account, whatever, under all the...