[12] Nulla ars, non alterius artis, aut mater, aut propinqua est.—Tertull, as cited by Junius.
[13] Omnes artes quæ ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione inter se continentur.—Cicero.
[14] Put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.—Exodus, iii. 5.
[15] Discourses II. and VI.
[16] This was inadvertently said. I did not recollect the admirable treatise “On the Sublime and Beautiful.”
[17] Sir William Chambers.
[18] See “Il reposo di Raffaelle Borghini.”
[19] Some years after this Discourse was written, Bernini’s “Neptune” was purchased for our author at Rome, and brought to England. After his death it was sold by his Executors for £500 to Charles Anderson Pelham, Esq., now Lord Yarborough. M.
[20] Discourse III.
[21] In Ben Jonson’s “Catiline” we find this aphorism, with a slight variation: