Works
- Correspondence with Frederick the Great at Digitale Ausgabe der Universitätsbibliothek Trier (German)
- Il newtonianismo per le dame, 1737. The International Centre for the History of Universities and Science (CIS), University of Bologna
- "An essay on painting" (1766).
- "An essay on architecture" (1753).
- "Letters military and political" (1782).
- "Essai sur la durée des règnes des sept rois de Rome"
- "Essai sur l'empire des Incas"
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“The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.”
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