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| − | that much time must be wasted in perusing the original - \I say wasted/ because All his Ideas may be found in <strike>other</strike> writers <strike>more happi</strike> [?] \far superior to Him in Style/ expression & — perhapst there is hardly a \good/ moral Idea in Aristotle which | + | that much time must be wasted in perusing the original - \I say wasted/ because All his Ideas may be found in <strike>other</strike> writers <strike>more happi</strike> [?] \far superior to Him in Style/ expression & — perhapst there is hardly a \good/ moral Idea in Aristotle which Horace & Cicero have not \expressed/ embellished by the felicity of their Expression — the case is very different with Xenophon & Plato — those two great Masters of Simple & of flowery Language — |
it is a good Rule Carissimo Scultore [sic] for reading & particularly for the reading of those Students in art who having other professional occupations cannot devote themselves to Books \entirely/ like a mere Man of Letters it is I say a good rule that Pliny gives us in those 4 simple words not multa sed multum | it is a good Rule Carissimo Scultore [sic] for reading & particularly for the reading of those Students in art who having other professional occupations cannot devote themselves to Books \entirely/ like a mere Man of Letters it is I say a good rule that Pliny gives us in those 4 simple words not multa sed multum | ||
Tho I confess myself a sort of Helluo Liborum yet I trust both the dear Sculptors are assured that if Either Master or disciple had \immediate/ occasion even for all my Books they might command them <strike>all on Any pressing Occasion</strike> after this sincere & affectionate declaration I will confess that the dear little Phidias<sup>s</sup> first intimating that He could hardly find the Leisure half Hour every week to write me a Letter & then calling for a Cargo of Books which He could not read in <strike>3</strike> five Years at the rate of reading which I presume a young artist must travel at appeared to me | Tho I confess myself a sort of Helluo Liborum yet I trust both the dear Sculptors are assured that if Either Master or disciple had \immediate/ occasion even for all my Books they might command them <strike>all on Any pressing Occasion</strike> after this sincere & affectionate declaration I will confess that the dear little Phidias<sup>s</sup> first intimating that He could hardly find the Leisure half Hour every week to write me a Letter & then calling for a Cargo of Books which He could not read in <strike>3</strike> five Years at the rate of reading which I presume a young artist must travel at appeared to me | ||
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that much time must be wasted in perusing the original - \I say wasted/ because All his Ideas may be found in other writers more happi [?] \far superior to Him in Style/ expression & — perhapst there is hardly a \good/ moral Idea in Aristotle which Horace & Cicero have not \expressed/ embellished by the felicity of their Expression — the case is very different with Xenophon & Plato — those two great Masters of Simple & of flowery Language —
it is a good Rule Carissimo Scultore [sic] for reading & particularly for the reading of those Students in art who having other professional occupations cannot devote themselves to Books \entirely/ like a mere Man of Letters it is I say a good rule that Pliny gives us in those 4 simple words not multa sed multum
Tho I confess myself a sort of Helluo Liborum yet I trust both the dear Sculptors are assured that if Either Master or disciple had \immediate/ occasion even for all my Books they might command them all on Any pressing Occasion after this sincere & affectionate declaration I will confess that the dear little Phidiass first intimating that He could hardly find the Leisure half Hour every week to write me a Letter & then calling for a Cargo of Books which He could not read in 3 five Years at the rate of reading which I presume a young artist must travel at appeared to me