1 THE WORKS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, KNIGHT; LATE PRESIDENT of the ROYAL ACADEMY: • CONTAINING HIS DISCOURSES, IDLERS, A JOURNEY TO FLANDERS AND HOLLAND, AND HIS COMMENTARY ON DU FRESNOY'S ART OF PAINTING; PRINTED FROM HIS REVISED COPIES, (WITH HIS LAST CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS,) IN THREE VOLUMES. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR, BY EDMOND MALONE, Esa. ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS. THE SECOND EDITION CORRECTED. QUASI NON EA PRÆCIPIAM ALIIS, QUÆ MIHI IPSI DESUNT. CICERO. VOLUME THE FIRST. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND. 1798. то THE KING. THE HE regular progress of cultivated life is from necessaries to accommodations, from accommodations to ornaments. By your illustrious predecessors were established Marts for manufactures, and Colleges for science; but for the arts of elegance, those arts by which manufactures are embellished, and science is refined, to found an Academy was reserved for Your Majesty. Had such patronage been without effect, there had been reason to believe that Nature had, by some insurmountable impediment, obstructed our proficiency; but the annual improvement of the Exhibitions which Your VOL. I. |