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Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy

Note 13 — FIRST LECTURE. ANCIENT ART.

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In lineis extremis palmam adeptus——minor tamen videtur, sibi comparatus, in mediis corporibus exprimendis. Pliny, xxxv. 10. Here we find the inferiority of the middle parts merely relative to himself. Compared with himself, Parrhasius was not all equal.

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