Sketches of European Capitals
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When I surveyed so much statuary, all displaying the lines and forms of the most chaste and elevated beauty, and almost nothing of an opposite character, it was a sur- prise and a gratification I had not expected, and tau2;ht a new lesson of the worth of that 224 THE ITALIANS OF MIDDLE ITALY.
human nature, which, under all dispensations, Pagan as well as Christian, acknowledges and reveres purity and virtue.
I know nothing to contradict what I have said. IMit some of the remains in Pompeii and ...Ilercnlaneum, and those certainly are bad enough, according to statements of travellers — for I did not see them. But there are works of art, which hang noio on walls in every Christian city of Europe, which, could they be preserved in any w^ay and handed down to after generations, might lead to the same conclusion about us, that so many now draw respecting the general moral condition of the Pompeians and Romans — and neither would be just. These Pompeian remains de- scribe the common and better character of the people, then and there, not much more truly, probably, than those works of our own, I have just spoken of, would our general character.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
When I surveyed so much statuary, all displaying the lines and forms of the most chaste and elevated beauty, and almost nothing of an opposite character, it was a sur- prise and a gratification I had not expected, and tau2;ht a new lesson of the worth of that 224 THE ITALIANS OF MIDDLE ITALY.
human nature, which, under all dispensations, Pagan as well as Christian, acknowledges and reveres purity and virtue.
I know nothing to contradict what I have said. IMit some of the remains in Pompeii and ...Ilercnlaneum, and those certainly are bad enough, according to statements of travellers — for I did not see them. But there are works of art, which hang noio on walls in every Christian city of Europe, which, could they be preserved in any w^ay and handed down to after generations, might lead to the same conclusion about us, that so many now draw respecting the general moral condition of the Pompeians and Romans — and neither would be just. These Pompeian remains de- scribe the common and better character of the people, then and there, not much more truly, probably, than those works of our own, I have just spoken of, would our general character.
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