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                                                                      		spectator;  for it is thrown off the middle of the body -
                                                                      		in order to show to the spectator its fine cutting:  Now
                                                                      		the Cornar Mocenigo hand - quiet and even stiff in its articulations
                                                                      		has its veins finely drawn ;  with the noble feeling of perception
                                                                      		that the Veined hand expresses alike of dignity and Care
                                                                      		age and birth:  (Compare Cleopatra - My bluest veins to
                                                                      		kiss)  One at once feels it the hand of an old man of
                                                                      		noble birth;  lordly and delicate - the Vendramin
                                                                      		hand is far more laboriously cut - but its blunt and
                                                                      		clumsy contour at once makes us feel that all the care
                                                                      		has been thrown away:  and nor is it a marvel, since well it may be, for it has
                                                                      		been entirely bestowed in cutting wrinkles about the
                                                                      		joints.
                                                                      		Such as the hand is, I looked for its  fellow:  At first
                                                                      		I thought it had been broken off, but on sweeping the dust 
                                                                      		off, I saw the wretched figure effigy had only one hand
                                                                      		and was a block cut a broken mere block on the other side;  The face, heavy
                                                                      		and disagreeable at any rate - has a most grotesque effect
                                                                      		One side of the brow forehead is wrinkled elaborately, the
                                                                      		other {left} smooth - one side only of the Doges Cap is
                                                                      		chased, one cheek only is smoothed, and the other only
                                                                      		blocked out, and distorted too besides;  finally the Ermine
                                                                      		cape, which is now elaborately imitated to its
                                                                      		utmost lock of hair, and of sub or ground hair on the

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