It is the absolute consent between conception and executionwhich constitutes one of the chief sources of delight in the art of the Greeks, to whom they are fond, too rashly, of comparing themselves.
They are very superior in execution and character to those of El Kab.
A thimbleful of powder behind a ball in a rifle will do more execution than a carload of powder unconfined.
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong; they, and not the police, guarantee the execution of the laws.
For the execution of their pictures, painters would then have to collaborate, in order to be able to bear the material difficulties.
But what will people say of the execution when one works in the open air in this way?
I have been an apt pupil, and he had no fear in trusting me with the execution of the fresco.
There was no lack of genius in him, but he had been denied liberty of execution until he knew no other forms but those his fathers followed generations before.
If he were suffering punishment for the statue, what punishment had been his for the sacrilegious execution of the Judgment of the Dead in the tomb of Rameses II?
During theexecution of these works, trusty messengers informed Vercingetorix every moment of what was going on in Avaricum, and carried back his orders.
Towards evening he convoked a council, and urged on his officers the punctual execution of his orders.
Correus, seeing them arrive in this manner, believed the opportunity favourable for the execution of his plan, and began by attacking the first squadrons with a few men.
Only one difficulty lay in the way of the execution of this plan.
Here is a list of the expenses incurred on the occasion of a sow's execution for having eaten a child:-- To the expenditure made for her whilst in jail 6 sols Item.
As no opposition was raised against the execution of this clause, a huge pit was sunk, and the defunct was lowered into his last resting-place, without any alteration having been made in the position in which death had overtaken him.
To a conveyance for conducting her to execution 6 sols Item.
The execution cost six sous, six deniers, and a new pair of gloves for the executioner, that he might come out of the job with clean hands.
Porcellus is caught by the servants, and brought out to execution on the xvi.
Francesco Guicciardini, at that time Governor of Bologna, and for others of his friends; which designs were afterwards put into execution in tinted woods inlaid after the manner of tarsia, by Fra Damiano da Bergamo, of the Order of S.
In the earliest times a Circus was formed of materials brought by the spectators themselves, who raised temporary scaffolds, from which an unfortunate drop, causing fearful execution among the crowd, would frequently happen.
They fought with the energy of desperation, for each rank had sworn an oath, and there was an affidavit, therefore, on every file, to do execution on the Volscians.
The purity of justice was provided for by the ninth table, which ordered the execution of a judge who accepted a bribe in the execution of his office.
The sudden idea of the traitor was afterwards carried into frequent execution; for the practice he had commenced, was subsequently applied to the execution of criminals.
Valerius Flaccus was immediately made master of the horse, while the military murderers, who had acted as executioners in the execution of his plans, received grants of land in the places which had been unfavourable to the tyrant.
Mucius was about to retire after the execution of the deed, but he was seized by the attendants, and then seized by remorse when he was informed that he had despatched a harmless literary man instead of Porsenna.
Hanno was frightened into delivering up the citadel, and returning to Carthage, he was hurried off to speedy execution, for having failed in the execution of his duty.
Have any of these been put in governing places where their proved fidelity would guarantee the direct execution of what is to-day the nearly unanimous will of the people?
In the execution of this design no pains have been spared in selecting and preparing the best pieces, both new and old.
Two or three retainers of higher degree came round him as he rode into the yard, and, while demanding his news, communicated their own, that my Lord was on his way to Fotheringhay to preside at the execution of the Queen of Scots.
Richard Talbot still remained as one of the trusted kinsmen of Lord Shrewsbury, on whom that nobleman depended for the execution of the charge which yearly became more wearisome and onerous, as hope decayed and plots thickened.
It could not be trusted to do execution at forty yards, and at that distance the Indian shafts are deadly.
The giants of the sea were coming in multitudes to this execution which they had ordained; all the windward ocean was full of rising and falling billows, which seemed to trample one another down in their savage haste.
This coarse, dastardly, and rather stupid stratagem he put into execution as quickly as possible.
That embossed executionof Rembrandt's is just as much ignorant work as the embossed projecting jewels of Carlo Crivelli; a real painter never loads (see the Velasquez, No.
What the execution of that drawing is you may judge by looking with a magnifying glass at the ivy and battlements in this, when, also, his cue is masonry.
In the intervals, she found time both for astronomical observations of her own, and for the execution of more than one work of great extent and utility.
I've seed a heavy horse-pistol like that do great execution when well aimed by a stout arm.
It was on the morning of his executionthat Bumpus sat on the edge of his hard pallet, gazed at his manacled wrists, and gave vent to the sentiments set down at the beginning of this chapter.
And now fearing to be punished therefore by order of law, he shewed his malice against such as had the execution of the same lawes chieflie in their hands.
The execution of which decree he commanded to the friers preachers and minors: but the king would not suffer it to take place, bicause he saw that it should redound to the preiudice of him and his kingdome.
It is fully understood that our visual perceptions, through the medium of recollection, may be represented by the skilful execution of the hand; and that those of smell, taste, and touch do not directly admit of such delineation.
Before each execution the entire apparatus is thoroughly tested.
Calculations have shown that by this method of execution from 7 to 10 h.
In the execution of actions he must necessarily receive some help, for he is not always capable of interpreting the word with the precise action which corresponds to it.
We cannot, however, insist too strongly on the need for the greatest possible care in the execution of the selections used.
It will be useful to give here a few details on the execution of these first rhythmic exercises.
It is more often the musical quality of the teacher's execution which will attract the little ones with a sense for art and bring them to that motionless attention which is the evidence of eager enjoyment.
So strong, so lasting, was that vital tradition which made monarchy in Prussia an instrument for the execution of great public ends.
It was said he had applauded theexecution of King Louis XVI.
Nevertheless, the utmost that Napoleon would acknowledge was that the execution of his design needed energy.
The death of Canning, which brought his rival, the Duke of Wellington, after a short interval to the head of affairs, caused at the moment no avowed change in the execution of his plans.
The Russian army and nation would have avenged the execution of the Patriarch by immediate war if popular instincts had governed its ruler.
No crime committed in the Reign of Terror attached a deeper popular opprobrium to its authors than the execution of Ney did to the Bourbon family.
The Charta contained a clause which, in loose and ill-chosen language, declared it to be the function of the King "to make the regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and for the security of the State.
Had his life been prolonged, he would probably have insisted upon the execution of the reforms which the Powers had urged upon the Papal government, and have made the occupation of Ancona an effectual means for reaching this end.
And, with relation to the present Case, nothing but the most scrupulous Mercy could have deliberated on the Execution of his Sentence so long.
That this was our Case we had but too much Reason to apprehend, when such uncommon Circumstances of Delay protracted the Execution of a late Sentence so long.
But it is too painful to dwell on this critical Subject any longer; may the Review of past Misfortunes animate us to a more vigorous Execution of future Measures.
Northern hands and eyes are, of course, never so subtle as Southern; and in very cold countries, artistic execution is palsied.
Grey is confident that the news of the execution of this noble Englishwoman will be received with horror and disgust, not only in the United States, but throughout the civilized world.
Originally it was stated that the execution took place at 2 a.
The execution of Miss Cavell brings into relief once more the main characteristic of German warfare.
Her words to the chaplain on the evening before herexecution were those of quiet courage and resignation.
But the civilized world would denounce it just as it denounced the Belgian, Lusitania, and Armenian slaughters, and as it is denouncing the execution of Miss Cavell.
For the consolation of those weaklings who object to the execution of Miss Cavell it is announced that the black act was done according to German military law, and therefore "legal.
Indeed, there was a case not long ago when on the eve of the execution a postponement was requested in order that some further representation might be considered.
Having already lain for several weeks in prison, Miss Cavell was brought before a court-martial, and after a two-days' trial was sentenced to death in the evening and led out to execution early next morning.
Yet the death sentence had been passed at five o'clock in the afternoon, and the execution of Miss Cavell was fixed for the same night!
The ordinary German mind is doubtless incapable of understanding the "horror and disgust" which the military execution of Miss Cavell will arouse throughout the civilized world.
In case the penalty is death and the day for execution has passed, what then?
The executionof these reliefs must have been left to some inferior artist.
The grouping is spirited so far as variety is concerned, but the execution is rough, and bare of all higher artistic feeling.
The proportions are noble, and the executionis technically precise; the ornamentation, however, is too profuse.
The technical execution was everywhere splendid, but utterly mechanical; principles were neglected in art, because Roman life had lost even the one guiding principle of its existence--expansion by brutal force.
