 | Thomas Reid - 1810 - 502 páginas
...a design, and raises a fabric. Invention supplies materials where they are wanting, and fancy adds colouring, and every befitting ornament. The work pleases the eye, and wants nothing but but solidity and a good foundation. It seems even to vie with the works of nature ; till some succeeding... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1811 - 522 páginas
...materials where they are wanting* and fancy adds a colouring and every befitting orna.r ment. The worjc pleases the eye, and wants nothing but solidity and...slow train of perceptions. They must be able, as it were, to correct the impetuosity of their jdeas, and patiently to revolve^ examine, and arrange them.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 páginas
...raises a fabric. Invention supplies " materials where they are wanting, and fancy adds colour" ing, and every befitting ornament. The work pleases the " eye, and wants nothing but solidity and a good founda" tion. It seems even to vie with the works of nature, till " some succeeding architect blows... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1818 - 466 páginas
...and raises a fabrie. Invention supplies materials where they are wanting, and faney adds eolouring, and every befitting ornament. The work pleases the...wants nothing but solidity and a good foundation. It seems even to vie with the works of nature; till some sueeeeding arehiteet blows it into rubbish,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 páginas
...a design, and raises a fabric. Invention supplies materials where they are wanting, and fancy adds colouring, and every befitting ornament. The work...wants nothing but solidity and a good foundation. It seems even to vie with the works of nature ; till some succeeding architect blows it into rubbish,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 320 páginas
...a design, and raises a fabric. Invention supplies materials where they are wanting, and fancy adds colouring, and every befitting ornament. The work...wants nothing but solidity and a good foundation. It seems even to vie with the works of nature, till some succeedingarchitect blows it into rubbish,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 páginas
...and raises a fabric. Invention supplies materials where they are wanting, and fancy adds coloring, and every befitting ornament. The work pleases the...wants nothing but solidity and a good foundation. It seems even to vie with the works of nature, till some succeeding architect blows it into ruins,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 páginas
...and raises a fabric. Invention supplies materials where they are wanting, and fancy adds coloring, and every befitting ornament. The work pleases the...wants nothing but solidity and a good foundation. It seems even to vie with the works of nature, till some succeeding architect blows it into ruins,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 416 páginas
...and raises a fabric. Invention supplies materials where they are wanting, and fancy adds coloring, and every befitting ornament. The work pleases the...wants nothing but solidity and a good foundation. It seems even to vie with the works of nature, till some succeeding architect blows it into ruins,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 páginas
...a design, and raises a fabric. Invention supplies materials where they are wanting, and fancy adds colouring and every befitting ornament. The work pleases the eye, and wants nothing bat solidity and a good foundation. It seems even to vie with the works of nature, till some succeeding... | |
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A creative imagination disdains the mean offices of digging for a foundation, of removing rubbish, and carrying materials; leaving these servile employments to the drudges in science, it plans a design, and raises a fabric. Invention supplies materials... 
