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As nothing can happen either to an
As nothing can happen either to an ox, a vine, or to a stone, which is not incidental unto them; unto every one in his own kind.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

and never could have existed though at
These have been engraved by Willemin, in his useful work, Les Monumens Français , under the title of Two Armed Warriors, in the Nave of the Cathedral at Lisieux ; and both are there figured as if in all respects perfect, and with a great many details which do not exist, and never could have existed, though at the same time the draftsman has omitted the animals at the feet of the statues, one of which is yet nearly entire.—This may be reckoned among the innumerable proofs of the disregard of accuracy which pervades the works of
— from Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Dawson Turner


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