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Excerpt from Le Tableau des Sabines: Expose Publiquement au Palais National des Sciences Et des Arts, Salle de la Ci-Devant Academie d'Architecture
De nos jours, cette pratique est observee en Angleterre, ou elle est appelee exhibition. Les tableaux de la mort du general Wolf et du lord Chatam peints par West, notre contemporain lui ont valu dans ce pays des sommes immenses. L'exhibition y existoit long - temps auparavant, et y avoit ete introduite, au 51ecle dernier, par Van click, dont le public venoit en foule admirer les ouvrages; il parvint par ce moyen a une Iortune considerable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
