"All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense."

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Source : Elihu Burritt, Mary Botham Howitt (1854). “Thoughts and things at home and abroad”, p.72

Elihu Burritt

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