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... Ground Glass , 200 . Extension of , 135 . Electricity , Velocity of , 99 . Elizabethian Architecture , 16 . Endless Leathern Strops , 80 . Envelopes , 199 . Establishment , Immense , 57 . Etching on Glass , 120 . Euclid , 16 ...
... Ground Glass , 200 . Extension of , 135 . Electricity , Velocity of , 99 . Elizabethian Architecture , 16 . Endless Leathern Strops , 80 . Envelopes , 199 . Establishment , Immense , 57 . Etching on Glass , 120 . Euclid , 16 ...
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... ground - plan is de- lineated according to the rules of plane geo- metry , and the building is erected according to the principles of solid geometry and mecha- nics , which last - named science is but an off- spring of plane geometry ...
... ground - plan is de- lineated according to the rules of plane geo- metry , and the building is erected according to the principles of solid geometry and mecha- nics , which last - named science is but an off- spring of plane geometry ...
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... ground . Arabesque scroll - work Paille , " by Rubens , are amongst his finest is painted in colour at the foot of each panel , works , the latter , indeed , being called his and small subjects are introduced at the " chef d'œuvre ...
... ground . Arabesque scroll - work Paille , " by Rubens , are amongst his finest is painted in colour at the foot of each panel , works , the latter , indeed , being called his and small subjects are introduced at the " chef d'œuvre ...
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... ground . The metal ran under one of the large flag - stones wherewith the place was paved , which obliged the workman to take up the stone in order to recover the glass . He then found it in the form of a plate , such as could not be ...
... ground . The metal ran under one of the large flag - stones wherewith the place was paved , which obliged the workman to take up the stone in order to recover the glass . He then found it in the form of a plate , such as could not be ...
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... short pillars , crowned with fleur - de - lis ; at about eight feet from the ground , the shaft has eight flying buttresses projecting from it , each with | been applied for drop - scenes , such as THE DECORATOR'S ASSISTANT . 31.
... short pillars , crowned with fleur - de - lis ; at about eight feet from the ground , the shaft has eight flying buttresses projecting from it , each with | been applied for drop - scenes , such as THE DECORATOR'S ASSISTANT . 31.
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Página 128 - 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...
Página 142 - He examines his own mind, and perceives there nothing of that divine inspiration, with which he is told so many others have been favoured. He never travelled to heaven to gather new ideas ; and he finds himself possessed of no other qualifications than what mere common observation and a plain understanding can confer.
Página 98 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world...
Página 98 - ... at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life; and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decays of nature, and succour old age with subsidiary sight.
Página 142 - I have remarked in ,a former Discourse, must be employed in the attainment of mechanical dexterity, and confined to the mere imitation of the object before him. Those who have advanced beyond the rudiments, may, perhaps, find advantage in reflecting on the advice which I have likewise given them, when I recommended the diligent study of the works of our great predecessors ; but I at the same time endeavoured to guard them against an implicit submission to the authority of any one master however excellent...
Página 143 - Nature, or, in other words, what is particular and uncommon, can be acquired only by experience ; and the whole beauty and grandeur of the art consists, in my opinion, in being able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind.
Página 143 - By this means, he acquires a just idea of beautiful forms ; he corrects nature by herself, her imperfect state by her more perfect. His eye being enabled to distinguish the accidental deficiencies, excrescences, and deformities of things, from their general figures, he makes out an abstract idea of their forms more perfect than any one original...
Página 143 - Nature upon close examination will be found to have their blemishes and defects. The most beautiful forms have something about them like weakness, minuteness, or imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms ; and which, by a long habit of observing what any set of objects of the same kind have in common, has acquired the power of discerning what each wants in particular.
Página 103 - Few have been taught to any purpose, who have not been their own teachers. We prefer those instructions which we have given ourselves, from our affection to...
Página 128 - ... the age of maturity. But while I mention the portcrayon as the Student's constant companion, he must still remember, that the pencil is the instrument by which he must hope to obtain eminence. What, therefore, I wish to impress upon you is, that, whenever an opportunity offers, you paint your studies instead of drawing them.