Excerpt from A System of Universal Geography, on the Principles of Comparison and Classification The novice in drawing, first delineates individual objects or the several part of the body. It is the business of a more advanced stage of his progress t draw even a single human figure and it is not until he is master of the elc ments of the art, that he is permitted to combine a variety of objects into: group or a landscape, and to imitate the colouring of nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.