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of  
success, 
and 
to 
raise 
characters in this point, 
and 
that 
is 
by making 
philosophy of 
did, and some 
yourselves masters of the whole 
colours, as Titian and Correggio 
others, 
in 
whose 
Works, 
from 
first 
to 
last, 
the 
minutest 
scrutiny 
will 
IIBVGP 
find 
El 
Colour 
misplaced 
prejudiced 
by its 
disposition with 
others. 
" To be perfect, is the emulation which belongs 
engaged, 
which you are 
to those arts in 
and the 
anxious hope of the 
country in which you live. 
To animate you to that perfection, 
is the object 
what 
of 
I 
have 
now addressed 
to 
I 
3.111 
persuaded it is 
This Academy 
your 
looks 
ambition to be 
with pleasure 
perfect. 
on the 
progress 
of 
Our 
studies, 
it 
may 
look 
with 
pride bn the high and cultivated 
state 
to which 
been 
the arts have 
raised 
31I1OTlg 
US 
ever 
since 
they have had the establishment of a regular 
school. It is no flattery to the present mra in 
Britain to say, 
that 
in no age of the world have 
the 
iarts 
been 
carried 
in any country to 
3 
such 
summit as they now hold among us, 
in 
so short 
a period as half a century at most. 
Among the