A HISTORY OF

THE ROYAL SOCIETY

OF ARTS

BY SIR HENRY TRUEMAN WOOD
SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY

WITH A PREFACE BY

LORD SANDERSON, G.C.B.

CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

Elevation of the Society's House, designed by ROBERT ADAM ESQ"

1.Taylor Sc.

Navigia atque agri culturas moenia leges
arma vias vestes et cetera de genere horum,
praemia, delicias quoque vitae funditus omnis,
carmina picturas, et daedala signa polire,
usus et impigrae simul experientia mentis
paulatim docuit pedetemtim progredientis.
sic unumquicquid paulatim protrahit aetas
in medium ratioque in luminis erigit oras.
namque alid ex alio clarescere et ordine debet
artibus, ad summum donec venere cacumen.

LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura, v. 1448.

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