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ating the works of British masters, fall short in 
no degree of the 'm0st fervid energies and 
examples, of which any country has been able 
to boast. 
" It is your duty, young gentlemen, to 
become accomplished in youriprofessions, that 
you may keep alive those energiespand examples 
of patronage, iwhen you come to draw the 
attention of the world to your own works. It 
is by your success that the arts must be carried 
on and preserved here. Patronage can only be 
expected to follow what is eminently meritorious, 
and more especially that general patronage 
diflilsed through the more respectable ranks of 
society, which is to professional merit, what the 
ocean is to the earth;--the great fund from 
whence it must 
ever 
be 
refreshed, 
and without 
whose abundance, conveyed through innumerable 
channels, 
every 
thing 
must 
presently 
become 
dry" 
productions cease to exist." 
and all