 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 Seiten
...considerations merely mercantile; but an Academy, founded upon such principles , can never effect even its own narrow purposes. If it has an origin no higher,...an institution, according to its true dignity ; and whopromotes the Arts, as the head of a great, a learned, a polite, and a commercial nation; and I can... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 430 Seiten
...considerations merely mercantile ; but an Academy, founded upon such principles,.can never effect even its own narrow purposes. If it has an origin no higher,...no taste can ever be formed in manufactures; but if thehigher Arts of Design flourish, tjhe.se inferior ends will be answered of CQU.r,se> We are happy... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 476 Seiten
...mercantile ; but an Academy, founded upon such principles, can never effect even its own narrowpurposes. If it has an origin no higher, no taste can ever be formed in manufactures * but rf thehigher Arts of Design flourish, these inferior ends will be answered of course. We are happy... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 Seiten
...considerations merely mercantile; but an Academy, founded upon such principles, can never effect even its own narrow purposes. If it has an origin no higher,...dignity; and who promotes the Arts, as the head of a great, a learned, a polite, and a commercial nation; and I can now congratulate you, Gentlemen, on... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 Seiten
...considerations merely " mercantile ; but an Academy, founded " upon such principles, can never effect " even its own narrow purposes. If it has " an origin no...Prince, who " has conceived the design of such an In** stitution, according to its true dignity; " and who promotes the Arts, as the head of " a great,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 Seiten
...considerations merely mercantile ; but an Academy, founded upon such principles, can never effect even its own narrow purposes. If it has an origin no higher,...dignity ; and who promotes the Arts, as the head of a great, a learned, a polite, and a commercial nation; and I can now congratulate you, Gentlemen, on... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 Seiten
...considerations merely mercantile ; but an Academy, founded upon such principles, can never effect even its own narrow purposes. If it has an origin no higher,...dignity ; and who promotes the Arts, as the head of a great, a learned, a polite, and a commercial nation ; and I can now congratulate you, Gentlemen, on... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 Seiten
...considerations merely mercantile; but an Academy, founded upon such principles, can never effect even its own narrow purposes. If it has an origin no higher,...'We are happy in having a Prince, who has conceived VOL. i. x .t•se the nsay cted 'rter ince, their their h they .f great or want ortunity :i at once... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 318 Seiten
...justly said to owe its existence to the exertions of Mr. William Shipley, the can never effect even its own narrow purposes. If it has an origin no higher,...according to its true dignity; and who promotes the brother of the Bishop of St. Asaph. Our first School of Design was an offshoot from this Society, effected... | |
 | John Burnet - 1848 - 244 Seiten
...An institution founded upon principles merely mercantile can never effect its own narrow purposes; but if the higher arts of design flourish, these inferior ends will be answered, of course." One disadvantage which operated against the artists of that period, and still shuts out the exertions... | |
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An Institution like this has often been recommended upon considerations merely mercantile ; but an Academy, founded upon such principles, can never effect even its own narrow purposes. If it has an origin no higher, no taste can ever be formed in manufactures... 
