 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 104 pages
...substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble, and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble, and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter,...figure is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it. What the sculptor is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble, and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 pages
...us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the art of the statuary only clears away superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to the block of marble, education is to a human soul.... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1883 - 446 pages
...the art of the statuary ; the statue lies hidden in the block of marble and the artist only cleaves away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish....is in the stone ; the sculptor only finds it." The poet Gray has embodied the same sentiment in the following beautiful stanzas : " Perhaps in this neglected... | |
 | 1877 - 256 pages
...rise above one another by different degrees of perfection. But to return to our former comparison ; a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and the art of the statuary clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone,... | |
 | F. Walter Savage - 1878 - 294 pages
...seasonably. 6. This letter is well written, although I wrote it with a bad pen. Translate into French : A statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and the art of the statuary clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone,... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 pages
...substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble, and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and...figure is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. The philosopher, the saint,... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the art of the , In Vit. Ascham, p. 629. t Aahton, In the Life of Whitaker, p. 29. t Plutarch, in Vit. The stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble; and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter,...figure is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. The philosopher, the saint,... | |
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Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the... 
