 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...  The Spectator - Page 1811729Full view - About this book
 | William Driverger - 1820 - 648 pages
...creatures, should we not be as much like them by our actions, as we already are by our wants ? Aristotle tells us, that a statue lies hid in a block of marble,...that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in...block of marble : and that the art of the statuary oi;l\ clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble : ivnd that the art cf the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of >ubstantial forms, w' en he t>>lis us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that tr.e an of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in...that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure ii in the stone, the sculptor only finds it.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue0 lies hid in a block of marble; and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous11 matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor" only finds... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in...that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it.... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in...that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it.... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue ties 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, the sculptor only finds it.... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...appearance. f rate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells • us that a statue lies hid...that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, the sculpture only finds it.... | |
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