 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 456 páginas
...profit : " Value, no doubt, every proprietor acquires, when he converts a bare and unsightly common into a clothed, sheltered, and richly ornamented park. But, excepting in the article of shelter, he has no more immediate value than the purchaser of a picture." But this apologetical introduction is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 424 páginas
...profit : " Value, no doubt, every proprietor acquires, when he converts a bare and unsightly common into a clothed, sheltered, and richly ornamented park. But, excepting in the article of shelter, he has no more immediate value than the purchaser of a picture." But this apologetical introduction is... | |
 | 1851 - 222 páginas
...to those which have utility only for their object; and therefore the expense must not be weighed too scrupulously, as if a return of actual profit were...he bought a picture on canvass, instead of creating the original. When the difficulty of the task, which had hitherto amounted to an impossibility, is... | |
 | Arthur Coleman Comey - 1912 - 498 páginas
...doubt, every proprietor acquires, when he converts a bare arid unsightly common into a clothed, 12 sheltered and richly ornamented park. But, excepting in the article of shelter, he has no more immediate value than the purchaser of a picture." But this apologetical introduction is... | |
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... transplantation of grown trees belongs to the fine arts rather than those which have had direct and simple utility for their object, and that the return is to be expected rather in pleasure than in actual profit : ' Value, no doubt, every proprietor... 
