how warm
soever
in
his
attachment
to taste
and
elegance,
that
the
Extent
of
fessional
talents
a country,
spread through
can
be effectually sustained-with adequate encourage-
ments.
It
Whd are
is the Wealthy and the great,
commonly
trained
bY
their
situations
to
the
perception of what is elegant and refined, that
must come f'0i'wa1'd in such an illustrious under-
taking. It is only they who can meet every
where the merit, let it be disseminated Mas it
mey, which is entitled to distinction. Without
the patronage of such, the arts could never have
obtained their high meridian in Greece and
Italy. Had not the
individuals in Greece
communities and rich
taken the arts under
their
protection,
not
all
the
encouragement of
Pericles,
Great,
or of Alexander the
could have
drawn forth that immense body of fainting
and
sculpture which filled the country. Had the
patronage of Italy rested with the popes and
princes, unaccompanied by those muniiicent sup-
ports which flowed from the churches and con-
vents, as well as from private individuals of rank
and Wealth,
the
galleries of that
country could
never
have been
so superbly filled as they Were,