 | Richard Harrison Black - 1874 - 470 pages
...elegance is, that which ought to be chosen : with us, it denotes beauty arising from propriety ; She natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance. E-lement, elemen^m, that whence all things arise. The first or constituent principle of any thing.... | |
 | Richard Harrison Black - 1874 - 472 pages
...elegance is, that which ought to be chosen : with us, it denotes beauty arising from propriety i the natural progress of the works of men is .from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance. E-lement, elemeninm, that whence all things arise. The first or constituent principle of any thing.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...power of reflection, the enthusiasm and the critical faculty, the senses and the reason. GUIZOT. The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness...convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. DR. S. JOHNSON. The enemy of art is the enemy of nature. Art is nothing but the highest sagacity and... | |
 | Edward D. Farrell - 1877 - 228 pages
...not perceived, but conceived. Acids and alkalies .neutralize each other more or less completely. The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, and from convenience to elegance. 592. Miscellaneous words. Written exercise. Bern 1 ilis' cence, a... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...power of reflection, the enthusiasm and the critical faculty, the senses and the reason. GuiZOT. The ɒ DR. S. JOHNSON. The enemy of art is the enemy of nature. Art is nothing but the highest sagacity and... | |
 | George Crabb - 1882 - 876 pages
...time in the bloom of his youth, and very remarkable for the cotHflineitfi of his person. ADDISOX. The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness...convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. JOHNSON. GHACIOUS, MERCIFUL. KIND. GRACIOUS, when compared with MERCIFUL, is used only in the spiritual... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 pages
...profits. — Profits TJ ti XT Rambler, No. 57. The natural progress of the works of men Progress . , ... is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. The Prophet Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. — Life. Letter to... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1890 - 802 pages
...others. It is only reflexively that we speak of "elegant furniture," or an "elegant classic." "The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness...from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety,'1 — JOHNSON. COMMAND. ORDER. INJUNCTION. PRECEJT. COMMAND (Fr. commander) is the most general... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1893 - 796 pages
...others. It is only reflexively that we speak of " elegant furniture," or au "elegant classic." "The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from eonrenience to elegance, and from clcganu to nicety." — JOHHSOH. COMMAND. ORDER. INJUNCTION. PBECEPT.... | |
 | George Crabb - 1896 - 870 pages
...in the hlooin of his youth, and very remarkable for the i-<n>mlint*K <;t" his |terson. AnmsoN. The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to eleyancf, and from elegance to nicety. JOHNSON. GRACIOUS, MERCIFUL. KIND. GRACIOUS, when compared with... | |
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June 30, 1/59HPHE natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. 
