The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 |
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Page 86
... true that many patents of a trivial character are granted , which prove nothing but hindrances and blocks in the way of invention , and only act as so many shackles upon industry . Thus Dr. Percy mentions cases in which patents have ...
... true that many patents of a trivial character are granted , which prove nothing but hindrances and blocks in the way of invention , and only act as so many shackles upon industry . Thus Dr. Percy mentions cases in which patents have ...
Page 106
... true of Reynolds . He had only followed that he might lead . The history of his student life was the counterpart of that of Wilson and Gainsborough , and his influence was by far the greatest of the three in emancipating English ...
... true of Reynolds . He had only followed that he might lead . The history of his student life was the counterpart of that of Wilson and Gainsborough , and his influence was by far the greatest of the three in emancipating English ...
Page 107
... true and strong representations of his sitters . Here his power stopped . He could not inform his faces with mind and heart , or invest his figures with grace and dignity , or impart poetic sentiment to incidents from common life , or ...
... true and strong representations of his sitters . Here his power stopped . He could not inform his faces with mind and heart , or invest his figures with grace and dignity , or impart poetic sentiment to incidents from common life , or ...
Page 122
... true than that he was parsimonious in giving . He was singularly unostentatious in his benevolence , and if he had tainted his virtue with the vice of boastfulness we should have heard less of his meanness . Another little kindness ...
... true than that he was parsimonious in giving . He was singularly unostentatious in his benevolence , and if he had tainted his virtue with the vice of boastfulness we should have heard less of his meanness . Another little kindness ...
Page 124
... true patrons , and when they had no other place for the display of their pictures than the window of a grasping tradesman , they might well be desirous to get their works fairly before the world , and to sell them without the ...
... true patrons , and when they had no other place for the display of their pictures than the window of a grasping tradesman , they might well be desirous to get their works fairly before the world , and to sell them without the ...
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