Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's
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An essay on perspective
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The PREFACE.
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Explication of the Theory, and have left to
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the Reader the Trouble of applying the ſame
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to Practice; </
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the common Operations, and entertain us
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with general Reflections on Painting; </
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are indeed curio{us}, but foreign to my Pur-
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Painter, but to render the Uſe and Exerciſe
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Bulk of their Works) might be thought to
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have more carefully treated of the practical
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Part of Perſpective, do indeed at firſt lay
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down ſome general Rules, common to them
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theſe Rules, and therefore it would be uſe-
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leſs to ſearch after others; </
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more neceſſary to ſhew Painters the Applica-
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