... of nature, and succour old age with subsidiary sight Thus was the first artificer in glass employed, though without his own knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of science, and... Glass - Página 2por Alexander Nesbitt - 1873Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 páginas
...employed, though without his own knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring the highest and most lasting pleasures ; he wa? enabling the student to contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold herself. This passion for... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 306 páginas
...employed, though without his own knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring the highest and most lasting pleasnres ; he was enabling the student to contemplate Nature, and the beauty to behold herself.' The... | |
| 1832 - 542 páginas
...though without his •own knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating or pro' longing the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of ' science, and...was enabling the student to contemplate nature, and beau' ty to behold herself.' We could not resist the temptation of inserting this beautiful description... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1833 - 336 páginas
...nature, and succours old age with subsidiary sight; thus facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring the highest and most lasting pleasures,' — this truly wonderful body has suffered to a great extent from the malign influence of the tax-gatherer.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 páginas
...employed, though without his own knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment or look peculiar to their own fraternity, have fixed their attention und the beauty to behold herself. This passion for the honour of a profession, like that for the grandeur... | |
| 1845 - 862 páginas
...employed, though without his own knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring the highest and most lasting pleasures ; * Several windows of this form are still to be seen in the old parts of Edinburgh, and probably in... | |
| 1849 - 896 páginas
...employed, though without his knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring the highest and most lusting pleasures ; he was enabling the student to contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold herself.'... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1858 - 868 páginas
...surface of glass vessels by metallic moulds. The mould is usually of tating and prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring the highest and most lasting copper, with the figure cut on its inside, and opens with hinges to permit the glass to be taken out.... | |
| 1861 - 876 páginas
...artificer in glass employed, though without his knowledge, in facilitating the enjoyments of life and enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring the highest and most lasting pleasure. In the various operations of dyeing and calico printing are exhibited some of the most refined... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 200 páginas
...though .without his own knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring the highest and most lasting pleasures." Venice for a long time excelled all Europe in the manufacture of glass, but was subsequently rivalled... | |
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