Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 sider |
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... the cause of this error of judgment ? It is that the eyes , having seen six or seven red pieces in succession , are in the same condition as if they had been looking fixedly for the same period at 16 COLOUR IN NATURE AND ART .
... the cause of this error of judgment ? It is that the eyes , having seen six or seven red pieces in succession , are in the same condition as if they had been looking fixedly for the same period at 16 COLOUR IN NATURE AND ART .
Side 17
Robert Hogarth Patterson. they had been looking fixedly for the same period at a single piece of red stuff ; so that they have a tendency to see the complementary of Red - that is to say , Green . This tendency necessarily enfeebles the ...
Robert Hogarth Patterson. they had been looking fixedly for the same period at a single piece of red stuff ; so that they have a tendency to see the complementary of Red - that is to say , Green . This tendency necessarily enfeebles the ...
Side 116
... periods entirely pre - historic — it is now known that a similar disappearance of a human race has taken place . Celt and Teuton , we fancy , were the first occu- piers of Europe , -but the case is not so . A wave or waves of population ...
... periods entirely pre - historic — it is now known that a similar disappearance of a human race has taken place . Celt and Teuton , we fancy , were the first occu- piers of Europe , -but the case is not so . A wave or waves of population ...
Side 117
... period ? Was its sun less genial , or its soil less fertile ? Were not its hills as pleasant , and its plains and val- leys as ready for the harvest ? Or , if men had not yet learned to plough and sow , were not its rivers filled with ...
... period ? Was its sun less genial , or its soil less fertile ? Were not its hills as pleasant , and its plains and val- leys as ready for the harvest ? Or , if men had not yet learned to plough and sow , were not its rivers filled with ...
Side 118
... period of the Roman invasion , the origin of those monuments was already shrouded in obscurity . A revolution , therefore , must have intervened between the time of their erec- tion and the advent of the Legions ; and what revolution ...
... period of the Roman invasion , the origin of those monuments was already shrouded in obscurity . A revolution , therefore , must have intervened between the time of their erec- tion and the advent of the Legions ; and what revolution ...
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Side 195 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned Natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British Territories in India...
Side 362 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.