 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 514 sider
...degrees ; and at three different periods. 1 . The first way was, To make the principal circumstance in the subject stand for the whole. Thus when they would...describe a battle, or two armies in array, they painted (as we learn from that admirable fragment of antiquity, the hieroglyphics of Horapollo) two hands,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1814 - 454 sider
...obliged to proceed gradually : 1 . By making tlic principal circumstance of the subject stand J or the 'whole. Thus, when they would describe a battle, or two armies in array, they painted (as we learn from the hieroglyphics of Horapollo) two hands, one holding a shield, and the other a... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1814 - 970 sider
...effect this improvement, they were obliged to proceed gradually: 1. By making the principal circumstance of the subject stand for the whole. Thus, when they would describe a buttle, or two armies in array, they painted (as we learn from the hieroglyphics of Horapollo) two... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 sider
...just degrees and at three successive periods. The first way was, to make the principal circumstance of the subject stand for the whole ; thus, when they...battle, or two armies in array, they painted two hands, the one holding a shield, and the other a bow ; when a siege, a scaling-ladder. The second method of... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 406 sider
...the principal attributes or circumstance in the subject, stand for the whole. Thus says Warburton: "When they would describe a battle, or two armies...painted two hands; one holding a shield, and the other a boic: — a tumult, or popular insurrection, by- — an armed man casting arrows: — a siege — by... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1836 - 790 sider
...according to the period of their invention. The UMvas, to make the principal circumstance of the snhject stand for the whole. Thus, when they would describe...popular insurrection — an armed man casting arrows, &c.: when a siege — a scaling ladder. The *¿d was, to put the instrument of the thing, whether real... | |
 | William Warburton - 1837 - 744 sider
...degrees; and at three different periods. 1. The first way was, to make the principal circumstance in the subject stand for the whole. Thus when they would...describe a battle, or two armies in array, they painted (as we learn from that admirable fragment of antiquity, the hieroglyphics of Horapollo) two hands,... | |
 | William Warburton - 1846 - 542 sider
...at three different periods. 1 . The first way was, To make the principal circumstance in the tnbject stand for the whole. Thus when they would describe a battle, or two armies in array, they painted (as we learn from that admirable fragment of antiquity, the hieroglyphics of Horapollo) two hands,... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1869 - 920 sider
...in them, according to the period of their invention. The Jit was, to make the principal circumstance of the subject stand for the whole. Thus, when they...describe a battle, or two armies in array, they painted tvro bands, one holding a shield, and the other a bow : when a tumult, or popular insurrection —... | |
 | Tzvetan Todorov - 1984 - 310 sider
...second stage was achieved in three ways. "The first way was, to make the principal circumstance in the subject stand for the whole. Thus when they would describe ... a tumult, or popular insurrection, — an armed man casting arrows ..." (p. 25): we would call that a... | |
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The first way was, To make the principal circumstance in the subject stand for the whole. Thus when they would describe a battle, or two armies in array, they painted (as we learn from... 