Passages From the French And Italian Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages From the French And Italian Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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September 29/A.-^Last evening I met Mr. Powers at Miss Blagden's, and he talked about his treatment by our government in reference to an appropriation of twen- ty-five thousand dollars made by Congress for a statue by him. Its payment and the purchase of the statue were left at the option of the President, and he conceived himself wronged because the affair was never concluded.
.... As for the President, he knows nothing of art, and probably acted in the matter by the advice of the director of ...public works. No doubt a sculptor gets commissions as everybody gets public employment and emolument of whatever kind from our government, not by merit or fitness, but by political influence skilfully applied. As Powers himself observed, the ruins of our Capitol are not likely to afford sculptures equal to those which Lord Elgin took from the Parthenon, if this be the system under which they are produced I wish our great Republic had the spirit to do as much, according to its vast means, as Florence did for sculpture and architec- ture when it was a republic ; but we have the meanest government and the shabbiest, and — if truly represented by it — we are the meanest and shabbiest people known in history.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
September 29/A.-^Last evening I met Mr. Powers at Miss Blagden's, and he talked about his treatment by our government in reference to an appropriation of twen- ty-five thousand dollars made by Congress for a statue by him. Its payment and the purchase of the statue were left at the option of the President, and he conceived himself wronged because the affair was never concluded.
.... As for the President, he knows nothing of art, and probably acted in the matter by the advice of the director of ...public works. No doubt a sculptor gets commissions as everybody gets public employment and emolument of whatever kind from our government, not by merit or fitness, but by political influence skilfully applied. As Powers himself observed, the ruins of our Capitol are not likely to afford sculptures equal to those which Lord Elgin took from the Parthenon, if this be the system under which they are produced I wish our great Republic had the spirit to do as much, according to its vast means, as Florence did for sculpture and architec- ture when it was a republic ; but we have the meanest government and the shabbiest, and — if truly represented by it — we are the meanest and shabbiest people known in history.
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