 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...down. Sbakip. STUFF. H. j. Istoft, Uut. ejlo/t, Fr.] I. Any matter or body. Let Phidias have rude nnd obstinate stuff to carve : though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty wliich otherwise in titter matter it might have hud. Hoclir. The workman on his ;fu^"his... | |
 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1825 - 688 pages
...the whole world ? Notwithstanding, with Nature itcometh sometimes to pass as with art. Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. He that striketh an instrument with... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pages
...as a verb neuter, to feed ! 1 in tnnously : stuffing is that by which a thing is filed. Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve : though his art do that it should) his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter nailer it have had. J She went for parsley to stuff t rabbet.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...gluttonously : stuffing is that by which a thing is filled. Let Phidias have rude and obstinate staff to carve : though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. Hooker. She went für parsley to stuff... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1830 - 550 pages
...the whole world ? Notwithstanding, with Nature it cometh sometimes to pass as with art. Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. He that striketh an instrument with... | |
 | Richard Hooker, Henry Clissold - Church polity - 1831 - 168 pages
...the operations of the Divine Law. With nature it cometh sometimes to pass as with art. Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. He that striketh an instrument with... | |
 | Aristotle - Ethics - 1836 - 538 pages
...according to the perfection of its object-matter. For as Hooker beautifully expresses it : " Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty, which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. He that striketh an instrument with... | |
 | Charles James Burton - Bible - 1836 - 328 pages
...the whole world? Notwithstanding, with nature it cometh sometimes to pass as with art. Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. He that striketh an instrument with... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...audience, as Priam's spear upon the buckler of Neoptolemus. It is a wise remark of Hooker, " let Phidias # " g r + : ܡc P 4 L / a % # ~8 & that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. He that striketh on an instrument with... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 528 pages
...audience, as Priam's spear upon the buckler of Neoptolemus. It is a wise remark of Hooker, " let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. He that striketh on an instrument with... | |
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Notwithstanding with nature it cometh sometimes to pass as with art. Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. 
