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...et left to resent such usage as this. The vehemence and explicitness of these and other attacks on Hume's character is at odds with the charity often extended to those who have recently died. Ten years later Smith expressed his amazement at the reaction to Hume's temperament before his death, and to his own description of it in the letter to Strahan: A single, and as I...

...et error. [Described image] Figure 9 Photograph of a statue of Ovid that still stands today in Constanta, Romania (the location of the town that was called ‘Tomis’ in Ovid’s time). The statue was put up in 1887 and is the work of an Italian sculptor, Ettore Ferrari. The same sculptor also made a copy of this statue which was installed in Ovid’s hometown Sulmo in...

...et al., 1990, p.150. Art in fifteenth-century Venice: `an aesthetic of diversity' Dreams and Conflicts, 2003, p.594. Burckhardt, 1990, p.19. See, for example, Welch, 1997. See Kristeller, 1965. During the writing of this chapter, an advertisement for a television series on the Medici put the received wisdom in a nutshell: `The whole of Western culture pivots on the...

...article/grove/music/25241 (Accessed 3 March 2016)...Week 2: Pianists and piano scores: Introduction - Last week, you learned a little bit about the history of Western music notation and you looked at melodies written on a single staff, listening and comparing different elements of the music. You are now going to start combining staves and working towards understanding a...