 This is an observation of a very narrow mind: a mind that is confined to the mere object of commerce — that sees with a microscopic eye but a part of the great machine of the economy of life, and thinks that small part which...  The Metropolitan - Page 141842Full view - About this book
 | James Northcote - Art - 1819 - 388 pages
...meeting of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, said, that he thought a pin-maker was a more useful and valuable member of society than RafFaelle. " This is an observation of a very narrow mind ; a mind that is confined to the mere object... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...the famous Dean of Gloucester, asserted before the Society for encouraging Commerce and Manufactures that a pin-maker was a more useful and valuable member of society than Raphael, Sir Joshua was nettled, and replied with some asperity : — " This is an observation of a very narrow... | |
 | Child rearing - 1846 - 316 pages
...the famous. Dean of Gloucester, asserted before the Society for encouraging Commerce and Manufactures that a pin-maker was a more useful and valuable member of society than Raphael, Sir Joshua was nettled, and replied with some '. asperity : — " This is an observation of a very... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 pages
...have received a more direct reproof if he were in the habit of expressing such opinions in Reynolds's presence. The latter esteemed his art too highly to...quarter to pass unnoticed. His admirable comment upon an 93 observation made by the Dean of Gloucester, Dr. Tucker, that a pin-maker was a more useful and valuable... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 370 pages
...the famous Dean of Gloucester, asserted before the Society for encouraging Commerce and Manufactures, that a pin-maker was a more useful and valuable member of Society than Raphael, Sir Joshua was nettled, and replied with some asperity." Dean Tucker was probably not aware how perilous... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1853 - 388 pages
...the famous Dean of Gloucester, asserted before the Society for encouraging Commerce and Manufactures that a pin-maker was a more useful and valuable member of society than Raphael, Sir Joshua was nettled, and replied with some asperity ; " This is an observation of a very narrow... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 pages
...the famous Dean of Gloucester, asserted before the Society for encouraging Commerce and Manufactures that a pin-maker was a more useful and valuable member of society than Raphael, Sir Joshua was nettled, and replied with some asperity ; " This is an observation of a very narrow... | |
 | Samuel Neale - 1795 - 550 pages
...position of him who made it) which fell from the lips of Dr. Tucker, the Dean of Gloucester, to the effect that " a pinmaker was a more useful and valuable member of society than Raphael." Sir Joshua's reply, when it was reported to him, is worth notice. " That is an observation," he said,... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 pages
...proud of the affection of Burke. Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, once observed in the hearing of Reynolds, that a pin-maker was a more useful and valuable member of society than Raphael. 'That,' retorted Reynolds, 'is an observation of a very narrow mind, — a mind that is confined to... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 256 pages
...proud of the affection of Burke. Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, once observed in the hearing of Reynolds, that a pin-maker was a more useful and valuable member of society than Raphael. ' That,' retorted Reynolds, 'is an observation of a very narrow mind — a mind that is confined to... | |
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