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these papers, and of some othera inicii ave appeare sto timeri time in the Scotiman I reprint them mainly, it must e consessed, to diu ine

have a obby it is exercise in a mil Way, and does no tali hirn way stom homerici diveris him; and by havin a doubie in os resis, he an manageto kee me permanent a in good condition. Aman who has only one objec in his, ni one line of

My hobb has alway been pictures, an ali ecat Art have fortunatet neve been a praCtitioner, though Pthin could have made a tolerable hans; ut unles a mancis a thoroughly good artist, he injures his Moyment, generali speising of the

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mus seel it in his fingers, as ellos in his ea andat his yes an it must fin iis Way rom at thethree o his heari, andae emotive. Mucii has been sal of the poWer of Artes refinemen to osten thei manners, and mahe them es of

id beasis. Some have thought it omnipotent forthis; thers have ive ii as a sign of the declineant sal of the obter par of us. Neither is and

both are me Ar does, as ou Laureate Sara, mali nobier in us what is igher than the senses through hicli it passes; ut it Can oni misenobter hat is atready noble it anno regenerate,neither caniit of itselfidebas an emasculate anilbedevi mankind; ut it is a symptom, an a satalone, hen Ar ministerso a nation's vice, and glorifies ita naughtiness- as in old Rome, as in Oude s also to much in places eare in timean place uia the one and the other. The truth is, Art, unies quichene stom bove an stom ithin,

has incit nothingieyon itself, whicli is visibi beauty

the ministration to the lust the destre of the ye. But apari sto direct spiritual WorShip and eis dedication to the Supreme, I do notanow an somos idea thought an Deling hich may be mademore trul to subserve, o oes magnanimity, butthe pures devotion and godly ear by fear, mean- in that mixture os love and awe, hichris specificissine realigatior o our relation to God ammo so

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done in his picture of the Light of the orid. Butis a ainter is himself religious i h seel God in what he is looking at, an iniwhat he is rendering bachin his canuas : inheris impresse With the trulydivine beauty, infinity, perfection, an meantia ofunspoile materia nature hereari and the uinessthereos the heaven an ali iis hosts, the strength of the hilis, the se an ali that is therein is hecis himself impresse With the divine origin an divine endo ali visibi things, the will e aint religious pictures an impres me religiously, and thus ahegood me better an possibi make ad men essbad Tahe the landscapes of ouriwn Harvey. Heis, dear id friend of thin years, an his o veras asainter is ni les than his fidelit an ardouras a friend, and that than his simple, deepinearted piety neve se one of his transcript o nature, b the solem an sui os gloom, illi a look that threatens the prosane; or laughin ali ver illi sunshine and gladness, buti seel somethingieyond,somethin greater an more beautila than their greatnes and thei beaut the de of God os thebeginnin and the ending the fit si and the last the

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In m views as to the ossice of the State I holdwith oh Locke and Covent mich, that iis primary, and probabi iis ni functio is to protectiss

In the Vita octavo, Thei ce of the State, an in iis Minvolume o Chunc. Iidi, theie illiseriound in clear, Strong, and singulari candi langu e the in lines of the sciences os Church and State politi . I does notisa mucli sor in Semeand perspicuit of the public mi iid is Mosuch book are allowedio sali aside, and suci a fare o os mergeti nonSens and erroras r. Buckle' sirst, and we trus last, volume on Civilisation, is read, and admired, and bought, illi iis ad logic, ita ad facta, and ita bad conclusions In bulli an in value his volumestand in the fame relation to Mr. Dick's, asiniandsul, I maysa mos chais oes t a grain os,heat, or a bushel of

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sorce; and that is incleed litile more than a transcendenta policeman. his is ita me sphere, and here lies iis me honour an glory. When it inter meddies it other hings,-from our Religion, Education, an Art, down to the number, an siZe, an meta of your butions it goes out o iis line and satis and iam convince that with some benefiis, specious and partiat, ur ovemment interserence has in the main an in the long mn, done harm Othe rea interest of Art. Spontaneity the law of Dee thoice, is a much the life of Art ascit is of marriage an it is no les beyon the power of the State tochoos the nation' pictures, than to Choos iis ives.

Indeed there is a great dealis the physiologica side

m a great mensure mahes s liat e re, Steps in

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butio fissed 'it is a stare, not aclook. δἰ illi Ιf ou an to move, an permanenti rivet, a

human ind, and the refources of nature, and thegrandeur of his country, ah him to a cotton ili.

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thing sor urseives, an paradoxica a it a scena, the wis and the waistcoat and the work of Artiour cleparimental Wiseacres may leas approve of is chosen sust sponte by tales o Roger, ill no onlygive them more delectation, hutio them more good, lilia one chose by somebod eis for hi upo the fines os ali possibi principies. Besides his radicatrice, thes Art-Unions have the effectis encouraginnand actually bringin into professiona existenCe, menwho had much etter e lestrio die ut o neve bebom and it a Pwellano' discourages, depreciates, and distic nour the best men, esides heeping the public, hicli is the ni true and Worth patron,

our Edinburgh Association, in man respecis nemithe est, havin admirabie an devote men a ita managers, halcis the hance that an os the thousan members, he hesdra s a priZe get a pictureli Cares ne sua for, or hic Wili do his nature