Excerpt from The Paris Sketch Book: Art Criticisms Due warning was given, in the Preface of this edition, that though the main principle of its arrangement would be chronological, a merely rigid consistency would not be allowed to prevail in this respect. In these earlier volumes especially. Though each is carefully planned so as to present. As a whole a more advanced stage than the one preceding, the structure must. Necessarily and Otherwise. Be clinker built. -overlapping. That is to say. In such a sense that some work ...
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Excerpt from The Paris Sketch Book: Art Criticisms Due warning was given, in the Preface of this edition, that though the main principle of its arrangement would be chronological, a merely rigid consistency would not be allowed to prevail in this respect. In these earlier volumes especially. Though each is carefully planned so as to present. As a whole a more advanced stage than the one preceding, the structure must. Necessarily and Otherwise. Be clinker built. -overlapping. That is to say. In such a sense that some work in each will be earlier than some in its fore runner. Necessarily, for it would be preposterous to disturb Thackeray's own arrangement. Of much early work. And some almost of his very earliest 111 The Paris Sketch Book. Otherwise than necessarily - in order (for reasons to be presently set forth) to get together the rather frequent expressions of the author's criticism in Art-matters which key on to much of the Sketch Book. I had at first preferred as an alternative the grouping of the Parisian matter such as the Second Funeral of Napoleon and the other Parisian Corsair and Britannia articles (see next volume) together; but. On the. Whole the present arrangement seemed more convenient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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