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Quote by John Singleton Copley
However America which has been the seat of war and desolation, I would fain hope will one Day become the School of fine Arts.
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The speaker acknowledges that America has been marked by war and desolation, but hopes its future will be different. Calling it a “School of fine Arts” expresses the wish that America will become a place where the arts are taught, practiced, and valued. The sentence therefore contrasts present devastation with the possibility of cultural flourishing.
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- Letters & Papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham, 1739–1776
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- Official Statement
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