 | Charles John Smith - 1904 - 800 pages
...speak of "elegant furniture," or ait "elegant classic." "The natural progress of the works of men ia from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.*' — JOHNSON. COMMAND. ORDER. INJUNCTION. PRECEPT. COMMAND (Fr. commander) is the most general of these... | |
 | Robert Kleuker - 1907 - 188 pages
...unabroenb= bare Sфicffal afler Äultur ift, einmal in Äleinliфfeit unb Überfeшerung actèjnarten: The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness...convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety (VIH 252). S)iefe§ fiфtiiфe Slbfфroenfen oon sJîouffeau ift rootjl ju beaфten, e§ fann un§... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1916 - 794 pages
...others. It is only reflexively that we speak of "elegant furniture," or aii "elegant classic." "The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness...convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety."— JOHNSON. COMMAND. ORDER. INJUNCTION. PRECEPT. COMMAND (Fr. commander) is the most general of these... | |
 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - 1921 - 834 pages
...described as logical but inelegant. Dr. Johnson said that " the natural progress of the " works of men was from rudeness to convenience, from " convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.1' If his tthe speaker's) way of doing it was not elegant it was convenient, and it was very... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pages
...poems, but of smaller efforts. "The natural progress of the works of men," writes Johnson in Idler 63, "is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety." The age feared that its elegance was dwindling into mere nicety. So Johnson complains of the late Metaphysical... | |
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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. 
