text:  The scenery of all the different parts of the world under every possible variety of light colour and circumstance; the manners habits and customs of all nations and all ages and all grades of society; the dresses arms houses and strongholds of men in all stages of their progress from the huntsmen of Nimrod to the Old Guard of Napoleon; the ideas of men in different classes and ranks of life in all ages--form so many additions to his pictures which if skilfully managed must give them infinite variety and interest