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adopted in Europe. When a partiality for 

 such forms is patronized and supported 

 by the highest rank, and the most acknow- 

 ledged taste, it becomes the duty of the 

 professor to raise the importance, by in- 

 creasing the variety of his art. It is there- 

 fore with pecuhar satisfaction that my 

 opinion has lately been required in some 

 great works of this style, which are in too 

 early a stage of progress to be referred to 

 in this volume, although an enquiry into 

 the past changes in the general Taste of a 

 country may properly conclude with such 

 notice concerning the future changes 

 probably to be expected. 



