Prospectus of Delaplaine's National Panzographia: For the Reception of the Portraits of Distinguished AmericansW. Brown, 1818 - 16 pagine |
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Pagina 12 - Scilicet non ceram illam, neque figuram tantam vim in sese habere; sed memoria rerum gestarum earn flammam egregiis viris in pectore crescere, neque prius sedari, quam virtus eorum famam atque gloriam adaequaverit."* — Sail Be/I.
Pagina 11 - ... of the grave; when the tongue •f genius shall moulder in gloomy silence; when the и eye of the orator shall be closed in darkness, and the spiritual fires of its glance no longer kindle the dormant intellect around; when the warrior's arm shall be sinewless, and, by the side of his decaying form, the sword of his triumphs shall lie rusting; when the patrons of the soil shall have become an ingredient in its physical amalgama; a generous and grateful posterity will rank among the first of its...
Pagina 4 - The condensation is the measure of the dignity ; and Isocrates, as the ' single life ' alluded to, is the measure of the condensation. That is the logic. By the way, Gibbon ought...
Pagina 11 - ... kindle the dormant intellect around; when the warrior's arm shall be sinewless, and, by the side of his decaying form, the sword of his triumphs shall lie rusting; when the patrons of the soil shall have become an ingredient in its physical amalgama; a generous and grateful posterity will rank among the first of its public institutions, that which will afford them, in -effect, the delight of a sweet and familiar intercourse with beings, endeared to them by the brilliance of their talents, and...
Pagina 12 - The history of such men," says the learned translator of Plutarch, " is a continuous lesson of practical morality;" and what could be a more pleasing and impressive history of this country, than that which would be exhibited in the well arranged portraits of those, by whom its moral and political grandeur was founded, and raised to perfection?
Pagina 11 - I have often,' to quote the language of the historian of the Jugurthinian war, 'heard that Quintus Maximus and Publius Scipio, and other illustrious men of our city, were accustomed to declare, when they looked upon the portraits of their ancestors, that they felt their minds most vehemently excited to virtue. Not, indeed, that the impression or the figure produced such powerful effects upon them, but by the recollections of the achievements of these great characters, that a flame was created in...
Pagina 10 - ... obliterate them. When time shall have swept away the splendid train of our earliest philosophers, statesmen, and warriors, to swell the " gathering" of the grave ; when the tongue of genius shall moulder in gloomy silence ; when the eye of the orator shall be closed in darkness, and the spiritual fires of its glance no longer kindle the dormant intellect around ; when the warrior's arm shall be sinewless, and, by the side...
Pagina 11 - Collection of the Portraits of Distinguished Americans," which still usefully recalls his own name: "With a pride similar to his who, in the mansion of his ancestors, loves to dwell upon the venerable array of their portraits which surrounds him ; and. by the almost living glances which dart from the canvas, feels himself unconsciously awed to virtue, will the unborn citizens of this expanding "hemisphere, day after day, delight to sojourn amidst the forms of the fathers of their country, and depart...
Pagina 12 - ... what could be a more pleasing and impressive history of this country than that which would be exhibited in the well-arranged portraits of those by whom its moral and political grandeur was founded and raised to perfection ? The countenance of a Washington would mark the epoch of its military, and of a Franklin of its philosophical glory ; and all the galaxy of genius around them, while furnishing the materials for memory to work upon, would create new heroes, and stimulate new sages, new statesmen...
Pagina 14 - Statesmen will occupy one department; military ge14 nius, another; naval heroes, a third; divines, a fourth physicians, a fifth; legal talents, a sixth; distinguished mechanics, a seventh, &c.