felicitant sur ce qu'il etendait Ie progres de Science en Europe, ill'avertissait qu'i! etait

dangereux de rendre les hommes trop Savans--VOLTAIRE Moeurs de[sJ Nation[sJ,

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o Englishmen! why are you still of this foolish Cardinals opinion?

Much copying discountenanced

To learn the Language of Art Copy for Ever. is My Rule [BLANK PAGE FACING

DEDICATION]

Who will Dare to Say that [Fine]Art is Encouraged, or Either Wished or

Tolerated in a Nation where The Society for the Encouragement of Art. Sufferd Barry

to Give them, his Labour for Nothing A Society Composed of the Flower of the

English Nobility & Gentry--[A Society]Suffering an Artist to Starve while he

Supported Really what They under pretence of Encouraging were Endeavouring to

Depress--Barry told me that while he Did that Work--he Lived on Bread & Apples[p i]

o Society for Encouragement of Art--O King & Nobility of England! Where have you

hid Fuseli's Milton Is Satan troubled at his Exposure

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TO THE KING.

The regular progress of cultivated life is from necessaries to accommodations, from

accommodations to ornaments.

The Bible says That Cultivated Life. Existed First-- Uncultivated Life. comes

afterwards from Satans Hirelings[.] Necessaries Accomodations & Ornaments [are

Lifes Wants] [First were Created Wine & Happiness ?Good

?Looks & Fortune]Satan took away Ornament First.