 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...to make their appearance. If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I innocent diversions. I must confess I think it is...diversions as are merely innocent, and have nothing eke stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1883 - 452 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....figure 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... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1885 - 476 pages
...comparison :—A statue hes hid in a block of marhle ; and the art of the statuary clears away ihe superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure...is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it: what sculptor is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. Thus we see the statue sometimes... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...to make their appearance. If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I ces of the same kind, discover an imperfection in...proceeding. The motions of the sun and moon, in short, stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1889 - 218 pages
...to make their appearance. ]f my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate...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.... | |
 | A. Meserole - English essays - 1896 - 450 pages
...to make their appearance. If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate...marble ; and that the art of the statuary only clears awgty the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. >The figure is in- stone, the sculptor only... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - 216 pages
...allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education 10 which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine...is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it. What 15 sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human 1. / consider. . . like may be 6. draws,... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1900 - 826 pages
...tells us that there is a statue hidden in every block of marble, and that the skill of the sculptor only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone. The artist only finds and reveals it. What sculpture is to the block of marble education is to the human... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1900 - 824 pages
...tells us that there is a statue hidden in every block of marble, and that the skill of the sculptor only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone. The artist only finds and reveals it. What sculpture is to the block of marble education is to the human... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - Education - 1900 - 826 pages
...tells us that there is a statue hidden in every block of marble, and that the skill of the sculptor only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone. The artist only finds and reveals it. What sculpture is to the block of marble education is to the ijuman... | |
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If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue... 
