. The Harvard book : a series of historical, biographical, and descriptive sketches. Kfilf. CHRIST CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE. 433 elegance not unbecoming the majesty of religion. Much has been done alreadyby your munificence towards completing a structure, the least merit of which isthe honor it does to our country by adding to the few specimens we have ofexcellence in the fine arts, which, under the conduct of a good imagination, haveso much influence in polishing and humanizing the mind, and, when employed inthe service of religion, are so expressive of reverence to the Deity, that they mayjustly be
. The Harvard book : a series of historical, biographical, and descriptive sketches. Kfilf. CHRIST CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE. 433 elegance not unbecoming the majesty of religion. Much has been done alreadyby your munificence towards completing a structure, the least merit of which isthe honor it does to our country by adding to the few specimens we have ofexcellence in the fine arts, which, under the conduct of a good imagination, haveso much influence in polishing and humanizing the mind, and, when employed inthe service of religion, are so expressive of reverence to the Deity, that they mayjustly be considered (as they were by the sages of antiquity) in a moral view,and made subservient to the noblest purposes of policy, ethics, and which passage is appended the following note : In urbe templum cedificas ?Pulcherrimtim id sit omnium in urbe palatiorum. In villa ? Alquet, immo vincat,reliquas in villa czdes? The Massachusetts Magazine for July, 1792, which givesan engraving of the building, speaks of it as commodious and elegant. TheRev. Dr. Holmes, in his History of Ca
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