Excerpt from Six Months in Italy, Vol. 2 of 2 The Duke of Wellington was once asked which was the best description of the battle of Waterloo, and in the course of his reply he said, that it was impossible to describe a battle: each person could recall and re late the incidents in which he himself took part, but nothing more whatever was beyond his own observa tion could make no impression on the memory. This remark applies with more or less force to every thing which comprises the elements of time and movement. A picture ...
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Excerpt from Six Months in Italy, Vol. 2 of 2 The Duke of Wellington was once asked which was the best description of the battle of Waterloo, and in the course of his reply he said, that it was impossible to describe a battle: each person could recall and re late the incidents in which he himself took part, but nothing more whatever was beyond his own observa tion could make no impression on the memory. This remark applies with more or less force to every thing which comprises the elements of time and movement. A picture 'or a bas-relief may be described distinctly and perfectly; but a series of actions, only in detail, by parcels, and more or less imperfectly. A land scape may be painted with the most minute fidelity, but no eye can catch, no memory retain, the succes sive and fleeting impressions made upon it by a violent storm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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