The Art of Doing Our Best: As Seen in the Lives and Stories of Some Thorough WorkersJames Hogg and Sons, 1864 - 371 sider |
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Side 30
... vessel until it was but a tiny white speck on the horizon , we can well believe that he would willingly have given all the wealth of learning acquired during the last ten years to have been pacing its deck with her whom he had hastened ...
... vessel until it was but a tiny white speck on the horizon , we can well believe that he would willingly have given all the wealth of learning acquired during the last ten years to have been pacing its deck with her whom he had hastened ...
Side 38
... vessels and other things very prettily , because God had gifted me with some know- ledge of drawing . ' The mere accident of seeing this enamelled cup had at last shown to Bernard Palissy the right direction in which to exercise his ...
... vessels and other things very prettily , because God had gifted me with some know- ledge of drawing . ' The mere accident of seeing this enamelled cup had at last shown to Bernard Palissy the right direction in which to exercise his ...
Side 39
... vessels was simply the result of accident , dependent upon the nature of the clay of which the said vessels might be constructed . Palissy , therefore , resolved to be the first discoverer of white enamel or glaze in France ; because ...
... vessels was simply the result of accident , dependent upon the nature of the clay of which the said vessels might be constructed . Palissy , therefore , resolved to be the first discoverer of white enamel or glaze in France ; because ...
Side 42
... I would test to some potter ; and having settled this within my mind , I purchased afresh several earthen vessels , and having broken them in pieces , as was my custom , I covered three or four hundred of the fragments with 42 THE STORY OF.
... I would test to some potter ; and having settled this within my mind , I purchased afresh several earthen vessels , and having broken them in pieces , as was my custom , I covered three or four hundred of the fragments with 42 THE STORY OF.
Side 43
... vessels . This they did willingly ; but when they had baked their batch , and came to take out my trial pieces , I received nothing but shame and loss ! ' Poor Bernard ! after all his labour and trouble- covering some hundreds of pieces ...
... vessels . This they did willingly ; but when they had baked their batch , and came to take out my trial pieces , I received nothing but shame and loss ! ' Poor Bernard ! after all his labour and trouble- covering some hundreds of pieces ...
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Antwerp beautiful Ben Jonson Benjamin Thompson Bernard Palissy Bible Bishop Brahmin Brindley Brindley's called canal career Carey cheerful church cobbler Cochlæus death determined Duke early enamel England English fame father favour favourite felt Flaxman France Fryth furnace genius Gifford Greek hand heart Heber Hindû Holcroft honour hope Hüber India Inigo Inigo Jones Izaak James Brindley John Flaxman King knew knowledge labour Lady Walsh land learning Ledyard Little Sodbury lived London look Lord Lord Grosvenor Macaulay master mind missionaries native nature never noble once Oxford Palissy's perseverance poetry potter received returned river Irwell Rumford says Scriptures seemed sent Sir William Sir William Jones Sodbury soon spirit success talent Testament thought took translation turned Tyndale's vessels white enamel whole wife William Tyndale Wolsey wonderful words write young
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Side 136 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Side 140 - THERE is a book, who runs may read, Which heavenly truth imparts, And all the lore its scholars need, Pure eyes and Christian hearts. The works of God above, below, Within us and around, Are pages in that book, to show How God Himself is found.
Side 130 - If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost.
Side 172 - But who hath praise enough \ nay, who hath any \ None can express thy works, but he that knows them ; And none can know thy works, which are so many, And so complete, but only he that owes them.
Side 166 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Side 32 - Here was deposited, the mortal part of a man, who feared GOD, but not death; and maintained independence, but sought not riches ; who thought none below him, but the base and unjust, none above him, but the wise and virtuous...
Side 174 - O my beloved nymph, fair Dove, Princess of rivers, how I love Upon thy flowery banks to lie, And view thy silver stream, When gilded by a Summer's beam! And in it all thy wanton fry Playing at liberty, And, with my angle, upon them The all of treachery I ever learned industriously to try!
Side 176 - ... when I would beget content, and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows, by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other various little living creatures that are not only created, but fed (man knows not how) by the goodness of the God of nature, and therefore trust in him.
Side 67 - You have said several times that you feel pity for me ; but it is I who pity you, who have said ' I am compelled.' That is not speaking like a king. These girls and I, who have part in the kingdom of heaven, we will teach you to talk royally. The Guisarts, all your people, and yourself, cannot compel a potter to bow down to images of clay.
Side 131 - ... and models of this inestimable man. Like the greatest of modern painters, he delighted to trace from the actions of familiar life the lines of sentiment and passion ; and from the populous haunts and momentary peacefulness of poverty and want, to form his inestimable groups of childhood and maternal tenderness with those nobler compositions from Holy Writ, as beneficent in their motive as they were novel in design. In piety the minds of Michael Angelo and Flaxman were the same — I dare not...