The Students' Cabinet Library of Useful Tracts, Volum 5T. Clark., 1839 |
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Side 4
... means of acquiring and circulating knowledge were few and ineffectual . The philosopher was , in consequence , exclusively a man of study , who , by living in a monastic seclusion , and by delving into the few books which time had ...
... means of acquiring and circulating knowledge were few and ineffectual . The philosopher was , in consequence , exclusively a man of study , who , by living in a monastic seclusion , and by delving into the few books which time had ...
Side 11
... means , was fami- liarly known to philosophers a hundred years before Franklin ; and there are a few vague hints , prior to his time , that lightning is an electrical appearance . But it was left for Franklin distinctly to conceive that ...
... means , was fami- liarly known to philosophers a hundred years before Franklin ; and there are a few vague hints , prior to his time , that lightning is an electrical appearance . But it was left for Franklin distinctly to conceive that ...
Side 12
... means of a silken thread , by which it was fastened to a post . A heavy cloud , apparently charged with lightning , passed over the kite ; but no signs of electricity were witnessed in the appara- tus . Franklin was beginning to despair ...
... means of a silken thread , by which it was fastened to a post . A heavy cloud , apparently charged with lightning , passed over the kite ; but no signs of electricity were witnessed in the appara- tus . Franklin was beginning to despair ...
Side 14
... means wonderful that the journeymen , forbidden by law to set up for themselves , and prevented by the power - presses from getting work from others , should be disposed , after having carried through one revolution for the government ...
... means wonderful that the journeymen , forbidden by law to set up for themselves , and prevented by the power - presses from getting work from others , should be disposed , after having carried through one revolution for the government ...
Side 17
... means of giving security , such as few young mechanics command . A duress like this , environing the young man , on his en- trance into life , upon every side , and condemning him to imprisonment for life on the spot where he was born ...
... means of giving security , such as few young mechanics command . A duress like this , environing the young man , on his en- trance into life , upon every side , and condemning him to imprisonment for life on the spot where he was born ...
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acquired admiration advantage Albert Durer ancient appear artist attention beauty called Carlo Maratti character Claude Lorraine colours common composition considered Correggio cultivation defects degree dignity DISCOURSE discovery drapery drawing dress effect employed endeavour equal excellence expression figure Gainsborough genius give grace grandeur greatest habit highest idea imagination imitation improvement industry instance invention justly kind knowledge labour learned light living Lodovico Caracci manner Masaccio master means mechanical men's party ment method Michael Angelo mind modern nature never object observed opinion ornaments painter painting passions Paul Veronese peculiar Pellegrino Tibaldi perfect perhaps picture Pietro Perugino poetry possessed Poussin practice principles produced pursuit racter Raffaelle reason Rembrandt Royal Academy Rubens rules sculpture Sergius Paulus simplicity student style suppose taste thing thought tion Titian true truth ture variety Venetian Venetian school whole wish
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Side 23 - If you have great talents, industry will improve them ; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour : nothing is to be obtained without it.
Side 35 - ... like the philosopher, will consider nature in the abstract, and represent in every one of his figures the character of its species.
Side 61 - Inspiration ; his ideas are vast and sublime ; his people are a superior order of beings ; there is nothing about them, nothing in the air of their actions, or their attitudes, or the style and cast of their limbs or features, that reminds us of their belonging to our own species.
Side 205 - I am well aware how much I lay myself open to the censure and ridicule of the academical professors of other nations, in preferring the humble attempts of Gainsborough to the works of those regular graduates in the great historical style. But we have the sanction of all mankind in preferring genius in a lower rank of art, to feebleness and insipidity in the highest.
Side 24 - I cannot help imagining that I see a promising young painter, equally vigilant, whether at home, or abroad, in the streets, or in the fields. Every object that presents itself, is to him a lesson. He regards all Nature with a view to his profession ; and combines her beauties, or corrects her defects. He examines the countenance of men under the influence of passion ; and often catches the most pleasing hints from subjects of turbulence or deformity. Even bad pictures themselves supply him with useful...
Side 180 - The habit of contemplating and brooding over the ideas of great geniuses, till you find yourself warmed by the contact, is the true method of forming an artist-like mind ; it is impossible, in the presence of those great men, to think, or invent, in a mean manner ; a state of mind is acquired that receives those ideas only which relish of grandeur and simplicity.
Side 65 - Like Polidoro, he studied the ancients so much, that he acquired a habit of thinking in their way, and seemed to know perfectly the actions and gestures they would use on every occasion.
Side 200 - Landscape ; and it is from hence, in a great degree, that, in the buildings of Vanbrugh, who was a Poet as well as an Architect, there is a greater display of imagination, than we shall find perhaps in any other...
Side 53 - Thus if a portrait-painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject, he has no other means than by approaching it to a general idea. He leaves out all the minute breaks and peculiarities in the face, and changes the dress from a temporary fashion to one more permanent, which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from its being familiar to us.
Side 6 - An Institution like this has often been recommended upon considerations merely mercantile ; but an Academy, founded upon such principles, can never effect even its own narrow purposes. If it has an origin no higher, no taste can ever be formed in manufactures ; but if the higher Arts of Design flourish, these inferior ends will be answered of course.