 ... human figure ; sometimes we see the man appearing distinctly in all his limbs and features, sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice...  The Spectator - Page 1831778Full view - About this book
 | Leisure hours - Conduct of life - 1759 - 326 pages
...inftruclion. Thefe are his words : Dijcourfes on morality, and refle£tions on human nature ', are the bejl means we can make ufe of to improve our minds and gain a true knowledge ofourfehes, and confequently to recover our fouls out of the vice, ignorance) and prejudice ', which... | |
 | Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1797 - 712 pages
...edifice, though encumbered with all its rubbifh. Difcourfes of religion and morality, and reflections upon human nature, are the beft means we can make...ignorance, and prejudice which naturally cleave to them. There is nothing which favours and falls in with the natural greatnefs and dignity of human nature,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 pages
...all his limbs and features ; fometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy, but feldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give feveral nice touchings and finifhings. Difcourfes of morality, and reflections upon human nature, are the bcft means... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 402 pages
...all his limbs and features, sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings. Discourses of morality, and reflections upon human nature, are... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...all his limbs and features, sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy); but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings*." The relations, also, which subsist in general society, and to... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - English prose literature - 1805 - 368 pages
...all his limbs and features, sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings. Discourses of morality, and reflections upon human nature, are... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...all his limbs and features, sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancyj; but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings*." The relations, also, which subsist in general society, and to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 340 pages
...all his limbs and features, sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings. Discourses of morality, and reflections upon human nature, are... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - Commercial correspondence, Spanish - 1811 - 606 pages
...all his limbs and features, sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings. Spectator. The Disadvantages of a liad Education. Sir, I was condemned... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...his limbs and feature», sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a créât elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not git e several nice touches and finishing«. Discourses of morality, and reflections upon human nature,... | |
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