American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 286
Designed by Charles M. Carter. EDWARD VIRGINIUS VALENTINE. Chapter Twenty-First. … MERSON, in his aphoristic way, says that the Enghsh people are in-capable of an inutility. He argues that the idea of Beauty with themis a luxury; and, as a consequence, that the fine arts among them fallto the ground. With much ingenuity, he attributes this to race tem-perament and climatic…
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![An illustration from Io. Bap. Portae Neopolitani de distillatione lib. IX : quibus certa methodo, multipliciq[ue] artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cuius libet mixti in propria elementa resolutio, perfectè docetur (1608)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-iobapportaeneopo00port-133-133.webp)
