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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best; but, when a man has seen the light, this is next best by far, that all speed he should go thither, whence he hath come.
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But the Scottish patron on tour took home with him from Italy much more than his cargo of paintings, sculptures and antique marbles, the tangible souvenirs of his excursion to the south. He took home as well a sophistication of taste and an appreciation of the virtues of classicism which only contact with the Mediterranean inheritance could impart. Only sixty years before the building of the pedimented façade of Duff House in Banff, with its urns and roof-line statuary more in keeping with a sou
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― Scots in Italy in the 18th Century
― Scots in Italy in the 18th Century
