ought to look what he puts into it. >

[P 228] Thus it is the ornaments, rather than the proportions of architecture, which at the first

glance distinguish the different orders from each other; the Dorick is known by its triglyphs, the

Ionick by its volutes, and the Corinthian by its acanthus.

[He could not tell Ionickfrom the Corinthian or Dorick or one column from another].

[P 232] [European meeting Cherokee Indian. . . which ever first feels himself provoked to laugh,

is the barbarian.

[P 242] [In the highest] flights of. . . imagination, reason ought to preside from first to last, . . .

DISCOURSE VIII

[P 244, back of title]

& Locke on this Treatise Reynolds has grounded many of his assertions. in all his

Discourses I read Burkes Treatise when very Young at the same time I read Locke on

Human Understanding & Bacons Advancement of Learning on Every one of these

Books I wrote my Opinions & on looking them over find that my Notes on Reynolds

in this Book are exactly Similar. I felt the Same Contempt & Abhorrence then; that I

do now. They mock Inspiration & Vision Inspiration & Vision was then & now is & I

hope will

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always Remain my Element my Eternal Dwelling place. how can I then hear it

Contemnd without returning Scorn for Scorn-->

[P 245] THE PRINCIPLES OF ART. . . IN THEIR EXCESS BECOME DEFECTS. . . .

. . . form an idea of perfection from the. . . various schools. . . .

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