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Excerpt from The Union of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting: Exemplified by a Series of Illustrations, With Descriptive Accounts of the House and Galleries of John Soane
Many years' intimacy with Mr. Soane, and more years' partiality for architecture in particular, and for the fine arts generally, may be adduced as motives for under taking the Essay which is at length submitted to public candour and critimsm. Aware. Of the difficulty and delicacy of commenting on the professional designs of a living artist, and a friend - of the seeming impracticability of being strictly irnpar~ tial, and unreservedly candid, I have often questioned my own judgment, scrutinised my own feelings and opinions, and have therefore sought the approving sanction of those confidential friends, in Whose kindness and candour I could confide. In this class H. Leeds, whose lucubrations form a large portion of the ensuing pages antlwho has bestowed much attention on the subject of architecture, by studying it with a devotedness not very common in an amateur, nor, unfortunately so general as could be wished, in the members of the profession.
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