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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt:...the Tenth owe their strongest, their most amiable, and their most legitimate claims to our respect, admiration, and gratitude; this is their highest and their only undivided honour; and, if not the column itself, it is certainly (to borrow a metaphor from a celebrated orator) ' the Corinthian capital of their fame.'" That the governments of other nations are actuated by views far more extended and enlightened than our own, as far as regards the subject under consideration, it would be most easy to show, there being examples without end of their liberality in the support and encouragement of the arts. Opie's Lectures. S 130 BONAPARTE.--FRANCE. Whatever may be thought of the late Emperor of the French, or the unjustifiable means which he used to accomplish his end, it is allowed, on all hands, that to exalt into notice the reputation and renown of the empire which he had so fraudulently usurped, was the grand and ultimate object which ever influenced his mind. To effect this, though arms was his trade, what, let it be asked, were the means which he used? The plunder which the Louvre so lately contained,--the academies at home,--the very numerous icoles centrales formed in the different departments under his control,--the splendid establishments, and the unexecuted projects connected with art, sufficiently testify in what, according to his view of things, the glory and the prosperity of a nation consist. " Fas est, et ab hoste doceri." " So far back as the reign of Louis the Fourteenth, French students of promise used to be sent, at the public expense, to a French academy, which, for the purpose of placing them at once in the very midst of the finest remains of ancient art, had been established in the very centre of Rome; and notwithstandin...