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• 1 2017-01-11T00:23:25-08:00 The First Discourse 19 3 plain 2017-01-15T22:32:14-08:00
  Copyist was this great man, even at a time
  when he was allowed to be at his highest
  pitch of excellence.
   
       I have seen also Academy figures by
  Annibale Caracci, thou oh he was often suf-
  flciently licentious in his finished works,
  drawn with all the peculiarities of an indivi-
  dual model.
   
       This scrupulous exactness is so contrary
  to the practice of the Academies, that it is
  not without great deference, that I beg leave
  to recommend it to the consideration of the
  Visitors ; and submit to them, whether the
  neglect of this method is not one of the rea-
  sons why Students so often disappoint expec-
  tation, and, being more than boys at sixteen,
  become less than men at thirty.
   
       In short, the method I recommend can
  only be detrimental where there are but few
  living forms to copy ; for then Students,
  by always drawing from one alone, will by
  habit be taught to overlook defects, and
  mistake deformity for beauty. But of this