In a class or guild of this kind, each artisan has not only his fortune to make, but his reputation to preserve.
No one easily allows himself to be reduced to the mere material cares of life; and the humblest artisan casts at times an eager and a furtive glance into the higher regions of the intellect.
He is not exclusively swayed by his own interest, or even by that of his customer, but by that of the body to which he belongs; and the interest of that body is, that each artisan should produce the best possible workmanship.
Look upon it, and you will not find it difficult to imagine how the soul, even of an obscure artisan in a remote age, warmed into poetry and music in the bosom of that valley, and by the side of that stream.
For some schools of the Gnostics, the Jewish God was the Demiourgos, the Artisan or Creator, a subordinate being in their divine hierarchy.
The word could mean an artisan of any kind; and architector, the term in the Latin version of Thomas, points to a reflex of the idea of "creator" which attached to the Gnostic term.
But perhaps the most powerful burning mirror ever constructed, was that of Mr. Parker, an eminent glass manufacturer of London; it was made in the begining of this century by one Penn, an ingenious artisan of Islington.
It appears that a great number of persons had assembled to witness the re-casting of the cannon taken by the Duke of Marlborough from the French; and there happened to be among them, a young German artisan in metal, named Schalch.
The fact was thus finally established that the fighting qualities of the farmer and artisan reached as high a standard as those of the bushi.
These xylographs prove that the Japanese art-artisan of the present day was not surpassed by the greatest of his predecessors in this line.
It was in connexion with architecture that the great artisan movement began.
Later there came abundant aid to the cause of popular art, partly from pupils of the Kano and Tosa schools, but mainly from the artisan class.
Among those who were present at the funeral of the Duchess Augusta was a Bavarian, named Andreas Stubenrauch, an artisan then at Coburg.
The workman wants an all-round knowledge of his trade because without it his position as a skilledartisan is precarious and at the mercy of every new invention or change in fashion.
What does the artisan class, what does the town democracy throughout Europe, care any longer for Christian checks or Christian sanctions as they have been taught to understand them?
Upon the genuine London artisan the Church has practically no hold whatever; and Dissent has nothing like the hold which it has on similar material in the great towns of the North.
Hardly any of those who came to him, adults or children, while almost all of theartisan class, were of the poorest class.
The descendants of the aborigines are at present found in a class called Doms, who form the artisan portion of the population, and are also largely employed in agriculture.
The position of a capable artisan is far superior.
As artisanwork is now in great demand the circumstances of the Doms are much improved, and there is every prospect of their rising into a higher position.
He turned into the first street he came to, and then went forward as fast as was consistent with the idea of an artisan in a hurry.
Inside the eating-house there sat several men of the artisan class, and a few of the nondescript variety.
The artisan would revert to fundamental truth, to the principles of the ancients--principles which are the eternal basis of all art, regardless of differences of race and temperament.
My school-fellows talked of it to the detriment of their lessons; it flavoured the tobacco of the fustian artisan as he smoked to work after breakfast; it walked on 'Change amongst the merchants.
Before nightfall the poor peaked face of the bowed artisan will have gathered its ineffable peace, and the widow will be led away from the bedside by the tenderness of neighbours, and the cries of the orphan brood will be stilled.
Here the toiling artisan labours far into the night.
The nearer the artisan comes to the producer of the food and the wool, the less is the power of the middleman to impose taxes, and the greater the power of the farmer to protect himself.
That industry is protected by heavy import duties, and those duties are avowedly imposed with the view of enabling the farmer everywhere to have the artisan at his side; thus bringing together the producers and the consumers of the earth.
The demand on the artisan "can augment only in proportion to the extension of improvement and cultivation.
Among the nations of the world whose policy looks to carrying out the views of Adam Smith, in bringing the artisan as near as possible to the food and the wool, Russia stands distinguished.
Every artisan emigrant to America gains opportunities of advancement of which his European fellows know nothing.
America than in Great Britain, yet an English artisan would find himself little richer there than at home, after paying the enhanced prices for subsistence, and conforming to the higher standard of life which prevails in the States.
There is the same regard for the half poor, in relation to the artisan who furnishes his own room, but who lodges in an upper story, and in relation to the peasant whose hovel or cottage has but one door and one window.
A higher artist-artisan appears, who tells us that the rough bar has not even yet found its highest expression; that he possesses the magic that can perform a still greater miracle in iron.
The iron, by this manipulation, is strengthened, refined, made more elastic or more resistant, and adapted to the use each artisan dreams of.
Just as each artisan sees in the crude iron some finished, refined product, so must we see in our lives glorious possibilities, if we would but realize them.
Public dances were less frequent than now, even at the marriage and artisan feasts they were looked upon with mistrust, as it was difficult to restrain the recklessness of wild boys.
The merchant had money dealings with the artisan, the artisan with the peasant.
Thoughtful and meditative, the artisan sat over his work, and sought to derive pleasure from the labour of his hands.
As soon as the spirit of the artisan was excited by the genial pleasure of creating, his imagination was occupied with images and symbols, and he turned his skill dexterously to high, nay even to holy things.
This store had failed; that artisan had moved out, and even two or three fruit dealers whom Bobbie patronized had disappeared.
Burke's new acquaintance was an artisan of the old school, albeit with the skill and modernity of a man who keeps himself constantly in the forefront by youthful thinking and scientific work.
The working man does not read, in the strict sense of the word; fiction has little interest for him, and of poetry he has no comprehension whatever; your artisan of brains can study, but he cannot read.
What I should like to attempt would be the spiritual education of the upperartisan and mechanic class.
Mohi tells of one Ravoo, and they land to visit Hevaneva, a flourishing Artisan 11.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "artisan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
