 | Adam Thomson - Clocks and watches - 1842 - 240 pages
...weighing scarcely more than an ounce, while the cost frequently exceeds £1000. The chisel of the sculptor may add immense value to a block of marble, and the cameo may become of great price from the labour bestowed, but art offers no example wherein the cost of the material is so greatly... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 866 pages
...often more than £10001 ' The chisel of the sculptor,' as Mr Thomson justly remarks, * may add ImmeaJt value to a block of marble, and the cameo may become of fnti price from the labour bestowed, but art offers no example vlunta the cost of the material Is so... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 824 pages
...ounce, but cost often more than £1000 ! * The chisel of the sculptor,' as Mr Thomson justly remarks, * may add immense value to a block of marble, and the cameo may become of great price from the labour bestowed, but art offers no example wherein the cost of the material is so greatly... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 842 pages
...ounce, but cost often more than £1000 1 ' The chisel d the sculptor,' as Mr Thomson Justly remarks, ' may add Immense value to a block of marble, and the cameo may become of pre^ price from the Labour bestowed, but art offers no eiample wberein the coat of the material ia... | |
 | Edward J. Wood - Clocks and watches - 1866 - 464 pages
...hair-springs scarcely weigh more than a single ounce, but cost often more than 1,0001. "The chisel of the sculptor," says Mr. Thompson, " may add immense value...for the labour bestowed ; but art offers no example wherein the cost of the material is so enhanced by human skill as in the balance-spring." The pendulum-spring... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 832 pages
...ounce, but cost often more than £1000! * The chisel of the sculptor,' as Mr Thomson justly remarks, * may add immense value to a block of marble, and the cameo may become of great price from the labour bestowed, but art offers no example wherein the cost of the material is so greatly... | |
 | J. Bucknall Smith - Wire - 1891 - 390 pages
...of watch springs. Thompson remarks in his treatise on " Timekeepers," " the chisel of the sculptor may add immense value to a block of marble and the cameo may become of great price from labour bestowed upon it. But art offers no example wherein the cost of the material is so greatly... | |
 | J. Bucknall Smith - Wire - 1891 - 388 pages
...of watch springs. Thompson remarks in his treatise on " Timekeepers," " the chisel of the sculptor may add immense value to a block of marble and the cameo may become of great price from labour bestowed upon it. But art offers no example wherein the cost of the material is so greatly... | |
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The chisel of the sculptor,' as Mr Thomson justly remarks, * may add immense value to a block of marble, and the cameo may become of great price from the labour bestowed, but art offers no example wherein the cost of the material is so greatly enhanced... 