Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 143
restore art to the place it held before Alex-ander, the other great general of the world, had debased it by the intro-duction of such Oriental luxury, after his conquest of Asia, that the nameof a Greek became synonymous with extravagant sensualism and the totaldegradation of art, yet he succeeded… … The Revolution had thrown out of France most of those who wereable to be purchasers, and discriminating purchasers, of tine furniture,and there had been no serious attempt for some years at any artistic man-ufacture. All that had occurred in thisline was the rifling of the palaces of theold order…
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