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feffei! : It is in this glorious moment , when he the deliverer o f his
Country , commmds the powers o f the Earth and difpofeth o f thofe ,
o f Heaven , that , he deferves the nome of Great which Poftcrity
has confirmed to him : A Soldier on foot , near his King , looks at
him with as much compaffwn , as he is capable o f , confidering the
horrible fright he is in , this fame fright ftampt upon every countenance
, has gone through every rank , which it has difordered ; it is
perceptible in the aBions o f all the men , and even o f the borfes ,
where it is exprefjed according to the difference o f their ages , chara-
Bers and fituations; fuch , are the marvelous works o f the Great Raphael
, who by a fort o f enchantment , makes us feel while we are
awake , the pleafures o f an agreable dream , and deceives us as to
time and place , by interefting us , and by making us partake o f the
pajfions , which he knows how to give with so much truth , to the
per fans, he brings into aBion . As I bad diftinguisbed Socrates in thefe
learned paintings , I likewife found out Anaximander , Democritus , AI-
pbonfus o f Arragon , that Prince Philofopher, who preferred the quiet,
which a love for the Sciences produces , to the glory o f wearing the
Imperial Crown , proffer’d him ; I faw there alfo , many other great
men, wbofe hiftery or writings I had read with admiration; their tajle,
their temper , their jierceptions , were marked by features so ftrikingly
like , that , you could eafily diftinguish the one from the other; Thofe
who have examined with care the precious pieces, I have been defcribing
, muft have been jiruck with so noble a fight ; the imprejjion
o f which , is ftronger , in proportion as it meets with a mind better
prepared to comprehend , and a foul more difpofed to receive the fentiments,
which fine things muft necejfarily infpire . How many are there
, who have been even more jhuck with them , than I was ! i f
they have not made that imprejjion , they ought on fome , it is , hecaufe
they have not ftudied, or underftood them fujpciently . I am led
to think alfo , that , Painting , dike Poetry, is not calculated for thofe
vulgar fouls , who are almojl unacquainted with the folid pleafures,
which the heart and mind alone can procure ; bumbled by the Virtues,
Talents , or Happinefs , which they think they can never attain , the
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