 ... very few rich enough to live idly upon their rents or incomes, or to pay the high prices given in Europe for painting, statues, architecture, and the other works of art that are more curious than useful.  The British Critic - Página 2821794Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 618 páginas
...that are more curious than useful. Hence the natural geniuses, that have arisen in America with such talents, have uniformly quitted that country for Europe, where they can be more suitably rewarded. It is true, that letters and mathematical knowledge are in esteem there, but they... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 506 páginas
...idly upon their rents or incomes, or to pay the highest prices given in Europe for painting, statues, architecture, and the other works of art, that are more curious than useful. Hence the natural geniuses, that have arisen in America with such talents, have uniformly quitted... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1907 - 702 páginas
...more curious than useful. Hence the nature Geniuses, that have arisen in America with such Talent, have uniformly quitted that Country for Europe, where they can be more suitably rewarded. It is true, that Letters and Mathematical Knowledge are in Esteem there, but they... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - 1912 - 232 páginas
...idly upon their rents or incomes; or to pay the high prices given in Europe, for painting, statues, architecture, and the other works of art that are more curious than useful. Hence the natural geniuses that have arisen in America, with such talents, have uniformly quitted... | |
 | Ernest Ludlow Bogart, Charles Manfred Thompson - 1916 - 904 páginas
...idly upon their rents or incomes, or to pay the highest prices given in Europe for painting, statues, architecture, and the other works of art, that are more curious than useful. ... Of civil offices, or employments, there are few; no superfluous ones, as in Europe; and... | |
 | Paul Monroe, Irving Elgar Miller - 1918 - 358 páginas
...Reese & Orme, London, 1806. useful. Hence the natural geniuses, that have arisen in America with such talents, have uniformly quitted that country for Europe, where they can be more suitably rewarded. It is true, that letters and mathematical knowledge are in esteem there, but they... | |
 | Paul Monroe, Irving Elgar Miller - 1918 - 368 páginas
...idly upon their rents or incomes or to pay the high prices given in Europe for paintings, statues, architecture, and the other works of art, that are more curious than 1 Franklin was undoubtedly the fullest colonial expression of the American spirit, and so impressed... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 706 páginas
...idly upon their rents or incomes ; or to pay the high prices given in Europe, for Painting, Statues, Architecture, and the other works of Art that are more curious than useful. Hence the natural geniuses that have arisen in America, with such talents, have uniformly quitted... | |
 | William Carlos Williams - 1925 - 262 páginas
...idly upon their rents or incomes, or to pay the highest prices given in Europe for painting, statues, architecture, and the other works of art that are more curious than useful. Hence the natural geniuses that have arisen in America with such talents have uniformly quitted... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1928 - 536 páginas
...idly upon their rents or income; or to pay the high prices given in Europe, for Painting, Statues, Architecture, and the other works of Art that are more curious than useful. Hence the natural geniuses that have arisen in America, with such talents, have uniformly quitted... | |
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