| Christopher Pinney - Photography - 1997 - 250 pages
...National Portrait Gallery, where these words by Lord Palmerston are to be found inscribed at the entrance: There cannot, I feel convinced, be a greater incentive...brought before us in the visible and tangible shape of portraits. Arundale's theosophical engagements may well have made him more susceptible to the powers... | |
| Brandon Taylor - Art - 1999 - 346 pages
...times ... There cannot, I feel convinced, be a greater incentive to mental exertion, to noble action, to good conduct on the part of the living, than for...brought before us in the visible and tangible shape of portraits'.82 The Gallery's first Secretary and Keeper, George Scharf, a self-educated immigrant who... | |
| Aaron Jaffe - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 272 pages
...the part of the living than for them to see before them the features of those who have done things worthy of our admiration, and whose example we are...brought before us in the visible and tangible shape of portraits." Of course, this means more than indiscriminate techniques for collective national edification;... | |
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