 | Great Britain - 1802 - 764 pages
...incapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves, or of understanding in what manner ¡t was performed : all this being no more than what is...the more curious productions of modern manufacture. " Neither, secondly, would it invalidate our conclusion, that if the watch sometimes went wrong, or... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807 - 1004 pages
...known an artist capable' of making one ; that we were altogether incapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves, or of understanding in what...: all this being no more than what is true of some exqnisite remains of ancient art, of some lost arts, and, to the generality of mankind, of the more... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807 - 1014 pages
...one ;. that we were altogether incapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves, or qf understanding in what manner it was performed : all...is true of some exquisite remains of ancient art, oftome lost arts, and, to the generality of mankind, of the more curious productions of modern manufacture.... | |
 | History - 1807 - 1012 pages
...known an artist ra pable of making one ; that we .were altogether incapable of executing *nch a piece of workmanship ourselves, or of understanding in what manner it was performed : all this being no more them what is true of some exquisite remains of ancient art, of tome lost arts, and, to the generality... | |
 | William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - Theology - 1810 - 350 pages
...known an artis.c capable of making one ; that we were altogether iivcapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves, or of understanding in what...the more curious productions of modern manufacture. Neither would it invalidate our conclusion,. .that the watch sometimes went wrong, or that it seldom... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1814 - 558 pages
...known an artist capable of making: one; that we were altogether incapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves , or of understanding in...more than what is true of some exquisite remains of some ancient art, of some lost arts, and, to the generality of mankind, of the more curious productions... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 pages
...known an artist capable of making one; that we were altogether incapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves) or of understanding in what...it was performed : all this being no more than what U true of some exquisite remains of some ancient art, of some lost artt, and, to the generality of... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves, or of understanding in what manner it was perfonned ; all this being no more than what is true of some exquisite remains of ancient ancient an, of some lost arts, and, to the generality of mankind, of the more curious productions of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...known an artist capable of making one ; that we were altogether incapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves, or of understanding in what...the more curious productions of modern manufacture. Neither, secondly, would it invalidate our conclusion, that the watch sometimes went wrong, or that... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...known nn artist capable ofmaking one : that we were altogether incapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves, or of understanding in what...one man in a million know how oval frames are turned 1 Ignorance of this kind exalts our opinion of the unseen and unknown artist's skill, if he be unseen... | |
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Nor would it, I apprehend, weaken the conclusion, that we had never seen a watch made; that we had never known an artist capable of making one; that we were altogether incapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves, or of understanding in... 
