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of the Tower of Babel--a double piece of follyfor in the first place there are no such remainsand
in the secondthe Tower of Babel was a post-diluvian building.
He was also largely given to the discussion of metaphysical questionson which his knowledge was simply
niland a favourite pursuit of his was defining beauty in the abstractand when he was on this topic the
nonsense he talked was something dreadful.
Mengs was a very passionate manand would sometimes beat his children most cruelly. More than once I
have rescued his poor sons from his furious hands. He boasted that his fathera bad Bohemian artisthad
brought him up with the stick. Thushe saidhe had become a great painterand he wished his own children to
enjoy the same advantages.
He was deeply offended when he received a letterof which the address omitted his title of chevalierand his
nameRafael. One day I ventured to say that these things were but trifles after alland that I had taken no
offence at his omitting the chevalier on the letters he had written to methough I was a knight of the same
order as himself. He very wisely made no answer; but his objection to the omission of his baptismal name was
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