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Pagina 48 - May the Devil fly away with the Fine Arts!" exclaimed confidentially once, in my hearing, one of our most distinguished public men; a sentiment that often recurs to me. I perceive too well how true it is, in our case. A public man, intent on any real business, does, I suppose, find the Fine Arts rather imaginary.
Pagina 65 - Italian churches, be compared with the brilliant effect and partycoloured glories of the windows of a perfect Gothic cathedral, where the whole history of the bible is written in the hues of the rainbow by the earnest hand of faith. " Unfortunately no cathedral retains its painted glass in anything like such completeness ; and so little is the original intention of the architects understood, that we are content to admire the plain surface of white glass* and to consider this...
Pagina 48 - Good Christians, you observe well I am regardless of expense, and also of veracity, in every form ?" Too truly these poor Fine Arts have fallen mad ! The Fine Arts once divorcing themselves from truth, are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die, and get flown away with by the Devil, which latter is only the second-worst result for us.
Pagina 48 - I am regardless of expense, and also of veracity, in every form ? " Too truly these poor Fine Arts have fallen mad ! The Fine Arts once divorcing themselves from truth, are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die, and get flown away with by the Devil, which latter is only the second-worst result for us. Truth, fact, is the life of all things ; falsity,
Pagina 65 - ... new species of decoration. So far as internal architecture is concerned, the invention of painted glass was perhaps the most beautiful ever made. The painted slabs of the Assyrian palaces are comparatively poor attempts at the same effect. The hieroglyphics of the Egyptians were far less splendid and complete ; nor can the painted temples of the Greeks, nor the mosaics and...
Pagina 31 - He, therefore, inferred that this air bubble had been heated, and by expansion had produced pressure on the surrounding parts of the diamond, and thereby communicated to them a polarizing structure. Now for this to have happened, the diamond must have been soft and susceptible of compression. But as various circumstances contribute to prove that this softness was the effect of neither solvents nor heat, he concluded that the diamond must have been formed, like amber, by the consolidation of vegetable...
Pagina 86 - ... to four carats; after which the additions may proceed by whole carats. Other needles may be made in the same manner, with copper instead of silver ; and other sets may have the addition, consisting either of equal parts of silver and copper, or of such proportions as the occasions of business require.
Pagina 20 - For it is manifest that the date of the church in which it may be placed is the most unsafe and unconvincing evidence that can be followed in deciding that of the font. The sanctity rightly and reasonably attached to the consecrated instrument of a Holy Sacrament, caused the careful preservation of fonts unchanged by centuries of rebuilding and alteration. Thus we cannot doubt that a considerable number of fonts now exist in England wherein the Saxon infant received the waters of salvation from the...
Pagina 100 - In one place you have a little meadow, in another the box is cut into a thousand different forms : sometimes into letters expressing the name of the master...
Pagina 69 - The rubber must next be enclosed in a soft linen cloth doubled, the remainder of the cloth being gathered together at the back of the rubber to form a handle to hold it by, and the face of the cloth must be moistened with a little raw linseed oil...