The Popular Encyclopedia;: pt. 1: On the rise and progress of the fine arts, Hunter-LedyardBlackie & Son, 38, Queen Street, and 5, South College Street, Edinburgh., 1836 - Art |
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Page 103 - the act whereby the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other ; in which case, the mind perceives the truth, as the eye does the light, merely by being directed towards it. Thus the mind perceives that white is not black, that
Page 103 - are more than two, and equal to one and two. This part of knowledge, says Locke, is irresistible, and, like the sunshine, forces itself immediately to be perceived, as soon as ever the mind turns its view that way. It is on this intuition that all the certainty and evidence of our
Page 216 - that, under the pressure of the invasion under which we were then labouring, the public would have more confidence in a military chief, and that the military commander being invested with the civil power also, both might be wielded with more energy, promptitude and effect, for the defence of the state.
Page 205 - or new soldiers) ; may their countenances be ever bright ; their hand victorious ; their swords keen ; may their spear always hang over the heads of their enemies; and, wheresoever they go. may they return with a white face.' White and black face are common and proverbial expressions of praise and reproach in the Turkish language. Hie niger est,
Page 205 - Mohammedan religion and arms, and the new militia was consecrated and named by a celebrated dervish. Standing in the front of their ranks, he stretched the sleeve of his gown over the head of the foremost soldier, and his blessing was delivered in these words—' Let them be called Janizaries
Page 320 - the Koran is acknowledged as the fundamental code, not only of theology, but of civil and criminal jurisprudence ; and the laws which regulate the actions and the property of mankind, are guarded by the infallible and immutable sanction of the will of God.
Page xxxvi - Rembrandt was a genius of the first class, in whatever relates not to form. In spite of the most portentous deformity, and without considering the spell of his chiaroscuro, such were his powers of nature, such the grandeur, pathos, or simplicity of his composition, from the most elevated or extensive arrangement to the meanest and
Page 257 - the arrival of your express, scarce any thing was talked of at Paris and Versailles, but your cool conduct and persevering bravery during that terrible conflict. You may believe that the impression on my mind was not less strong than on that of
Page 295 - ranging themselves in two divisions, one at the head and the other at the feet of the corpse, the chief bard of the head chorus, softly accompanied by the harp, sung the first stanza of the caoinan, or funeral song. This being ended, the foot
Page 323 - 1 choose the least for greater certainty—looks at first like a number of small islands, surrounded with something that floats and fluctuates like sea-weed. Here and there, a large rising is observed, like sand-banks, on which various kinds of small fishes are seen continually leaping about, till they roll