reason of the universe, if we may be al- 
Towed the expression, that we ought to 
regulate our own individual reasons, as 
we regulate our watches by the sun.” 
Ever since I witnessed this conver- 
gation, I have endeavoured to judge of 
every thing like a philosopher. I found 
also, that it was the same with our globe 
and its inhabitants as it was with respect 
to Silesia; every man forms his ideas ac- 
cording to his education. Astronomers 
ean see nothing in this world except a 
globe like a Dutch cheese, which re- 
volves round the sun, according to some 
Newtonians; .military men see nothing 
except fields of battle, and promo- 
tions; the nobles think of nothing but 
Seignorial domains and vassals; the 
elergy dream of nothing but mitres and 
benefices ; merchants look for commerce 
and money only; painters see nothing 
but landscapes; and epicures flatter 
themselves with prospects of terrestrial 
paradises. But tne philosopher con- 
siders this world with respect to its re- 
lations with the wants of men; and he 
Tegards mankind -themselves with re- 
a to the wants they have among each 
her, 
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‘For the Monthly Magazine. 
REMARKS on the TOWNLEY STATUES, in 
the sritisHh MusEuM. By the Rev. 
THOMAS DUDLEY FUSBROUKE, M. Ae 
“FLA. S. 
: (Fourth Room.) 
NS, 1. A bust of Trajan, with the 
breast naked. The tip of the nose 
Is restored. Busts of Trajan are tot 
uncommon. There are two colossal, 
_ and crowned with oak, at the Capitol and 
_ Palace Farnese. At the palace of Car- 
dinal della Valle is another, thought to 
have been the head belonging to the 
Statue on the column. The Villa Alba- 
ni has a third colossal head. At the 
French Museum are two busts, one of 
which was brought from the above vil- 
la. The statue of the Villa Maffei, 
which represents Trajan seated, draped 
én plilosophe, with a foot and antique 
shoe, had been removed from thence:to 
the Museum Pio-Clementinum, but is 
mow in the French Museum. Winc- 
kelmann quotes Homer and Anacreon for 
the beauty of the breast in men, ascri-~ 
bed by the former to Neptune and Aga- 
memnon. Jt consists, says W. in the 
fine degagement of its elevation, 
No. 2.°A bronze Hercules, carrying 
@touy the apples from the garden of the 
Hesperides. 
No, 3, A prop of a table, 
Remarks on the Townley Statues. 
119 
No. 4. A head of Apollo, of very early 
Greek work. I think, from the hairg, 
that it is Etruscan. The very early 
Greek style is only known from some 
Etruscan works and gems; for whether 
there are any marbles, is doubted by 
Winckelmann, (Art. ii. 17 ed. Amstel.) 
and De Piles, &c. have made perpetuat: 
errors upon this subject. 
No. 5. A statue of Thalia, found at 
Ostia, in the baths of Claudius. The 
folds of the drapery are exceedingly fine, 
No, 6. A head of Decebulus. This is 
probably a very rare and valuable bust of 
the Dacian king. 
No. 7. A bronze Apollo. 
No. 8. The prop of a table in pore 
phyry, representing the head and leg of 
a Panther. Winckelmann determines. 
statues of this marble to be the works 
of Greek artists, under the Ptolemies, 
or made under the emperors; but the 
Romans thought little of porphyry, as 
Pliny shows, when the statues were ine 
troduced from Egypt, in the time of 
Claudius. The panther was a symbol of 
Bacchus, also of Pan, 
No. 9. A colossal head of Marcus Aus 
relius, represented as Pontifex Maximus, 
in his sacrificing robes. Vhere is much 
majesty in the forehead. is busts are 
very common. The toga of the Pons 
tifexr Maximus differed from that of the 
other priests, and his cap was like that 
of the Flamen Dialis, the spike or apex 
excepted; but the term sacrificing robes 
is vague, when it is known that he wore 
his consecration dress, laid by for that 
purpose atthe Yuurobolia, Criobolia, or 
go-bolia. This consecration-dress was, 
in the words of Maillot, (Costum. i. 266.) 
“son bonnet, son habit pontifical, et sa 
robe ceinte et troussée.” 
No, 10, A bust of Lucius Verus, covered 
with the imperial paludamentum. There 
are many busts of Verus, but some are 
copies; two out of the three are such, 
at the Villa Borghese, where is also a 
colossal bust, &c. The French Museum 
has three busts, and there are many. 
others elsewhere. 
No. 11. Bacchus und Ampelus. 
No. 12. A head of the young Hercue 
les. This is very fine, 
No. 13. A head of Juno. 
No, 14. A statue of Diana, draped,, 
and running. I do not like these 
Dianas: the drapery has an awkward, 
stiff, and unpleasing, form. It turns off 
too abruptly at the height of the knee, 
It would be better to float more grace- 
fully from the waist. 
No. 44, is @ bust of Hadrian, with 
the 
