 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 104 էջ
...statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, educdtion is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero — the Enumerawise, the good,... | |
 | John Ella (director of the Musical union.) - 1872 - 54 էջ
...claim to their indulgence. A Greek moralist tells us, " A statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and what sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." Now, whether a nation is musical, military, nautical, or commercial, is mainly owing to the force of... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 էջ
...education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble, and that the...is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it. What the sculptor is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or... | |
 | Christian life - 1874 - 446 էջ
...Shows Him in every place To homeliest hearts of pilgrims pure and meek. A'eble. REFLECTIONS. AXTHAT sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a * human soul. The philosopher, the saint, and the hero — the wise, the good, and the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 էջ
...education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble, and that the...superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human... | |
 | University of Madras - 1876 - 580 էջ
...the most powerful and excellent things in skilful hands, but in unskilful the most mischievous." 2. " What Sculpture is to a block of marble, Education is to a human soul. The Philosopher, the Saint, the Hero,— the wise, the good, or the great man,—very often lie hid in a Plebeian, which a proper... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 էջ
...education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the art of the statuary only clears away superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds... | |
 | 1877 - 256 էջ
...return to our former comparison ; a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and the art of the statuary clears away the superfluous matter and removes the...sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human sou!. I. 3um Überfeinen in§ £atetntfcí)e. SDíacimUian I. Bermáfjlte ftdj im 3a^re 1477... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1883 - 446 էջ
...the art of the statuary ; the statue lies hidden in the block of marble and the artist only cleaves away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish....figure is in the stone ; the sculptor only finds it." The poet Gray has embodied the same sentiment in the following beautiful stanzas : " Perhaps in this... | |
 | F. Walter Savage - 1878 - 294 էջ
...bad pen. Translate into French : A statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and the art of the statuary clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the...sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. Thus we see the statue sometimes only begun to be chipped, sometimes rough hewn and... | |
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The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. 
