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\/ not to acknowledge he has manifested a passionate desire to \/ serve & respect the Royal Academy of London, and his atten \/ =tions have been prompt & unceasing to the English in Rome. \/ By such a donation as that we now contemplate the Donor \/ secures to himself satisfactions increasing in proportion \/ to the accumulated advantages resulting from the use of  \/ the gift, the diffusion of knowledge & taste, the elavation[sic] \/ of national charactor[sic] in noble & useful arts, desseminating[sic] \/ their advantages in a thousand different currents connected \/ by the united interests of letters, science & civilization[sic], \/ the honest wealth of the Country promoted, & by the inno_ \/ =cence of such employments & the beneficence of their nature \/ a permanent addition will be acquired in the general fund \/ of happiness & contentment! \/ Long may the Prince[deleted] Regent enjoy the delights of such \/ patriotic & balmy reflections! And may the rising talents \/ within these walls satisfy the wishes of their Patron! & \/ fulfil the most sanguine expectations & ardent hope of \/ this Institution & their Country \/ What has been said may properly lead to more extensive views \/ in the arts of Design & especially sculpture the object of these Lectures \/. In the early ages of the world Tents & the slightest structures were \/ thought sufficient for the purposes of habitation, but Temples were raised \/ or excavated of stone adorned by sculpture with the emblems of Theology \/ and Ink recto."},{"id":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/40857\/inscription\/2","type":"LinguisticObject","classified_as":[{"id":"http:\/\/vocab.getty.edu\/aat\/300435414","type":"Type","_label":"Inscription Description"},{"id":"http:\/\/vocab.getty.edu\/aat\/300418049","type":"Type","_label":"Brief Text"}],"content":"and[sic] symbols of Divine Wisdom \/ In India these sculptures were mystical attributes & manifestations \/ In Assyria they had relation to the heavenly bodies & government of the Universe. \/ In Egypt they were Hieroglyphical memorials of Divine \/ and human knowledge, this was the earliest as it will always continue \/ the most important employment of this art, debased indeed according \/ to the corruption of systems_ but in that nation that[deleted] which received the \/ Law with signs wonders to enlighten a darkened world! The Almighty \/ directed the figures of Cherubim to guard the ark of the covenant \/ but the ark, the Tabernacle, the first & second Temple, & all \/ their glories have been removed by Divine appointment, & we \/ must look & we must look[preceding four words deleted] to systems more questionable & less \/ sure for such perfection as we are acquainted with in this art, \/ yet we must not be led to suppose that any art dependant on \/ intellectual knowledge can arise to any height of excellence \/ without the assistance of its efficient cause, & the arts of \/ design in Greece were improved by the Pythagorean & Platonic \/ philosophies the most enlightened the[deleted] which the heathen world \/ possessed, so much the less will be said of Grecian Art \/ in this place because it supplies so large a portion of the \/ following discourses, while we turn our present thoughts \/ to the more general application & utility of the arts of \/ Design & more especially Sculpture. \/ by John Flaxman Ink verso."}]}