The first acquaintance with a great work of art has usually proved an important event in every young artist's life.
Huber's great work on 'Bees' is still regarded as a masterpiece, embodying a vast amount of original observation on their habits and natural history.
Is there no part of God's great workin providence that should lead you to be discontented with your ease and privileges until you are enfranchised?
Anthony as proprietor, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury as editors, has done a great work.
From all of this I am inclined to think that we have set our hands to a great work, to a long and hard labor, to a reform of human society; to a reduplication of human power and well-being.
Frederick replied that he did not see how a slave could prepare himself for any great work; but the pious old man always answered, "Trust in the Lord.
God raised him up to do a great work, which he faithfully performed; and his spirit is still "marching on.
Like all revelations of the better life, the adequate perception of a great workdemands a gifted simplicity of vision.
He is unworthy to share the delights of great work who is not able to respect it; he has no right to meddle with the best of literature who is not prepared to approach it with some reverence.
Any carper can find the faults in a great work; it is only the enlightened who can discover all its merits.
No great work is carried out where the natural and divinely-sent leaders hang back.
Brother Azarias forcibly sums up La Salle's great work in this respect as follows: "He is the benefactor of the modern schoolmaster.
To prepare a people to stand in the day of God, a great work of reform was to be accomplished.
Though Geneva had accepted the reformed faith, yet a great work remained to be accomplished here.
Luther had a great work to do in reflecting to others the light which God had permitted to shine upon him; yet he did not receive all the light which was to be given to the world.
Estimations of the greatest possible development of masses will be found in Chrenberg's great work 'Die Infusionsthierchen als volkommne Organismen', 1838, s.
The general result of Reich's great work on the temperature of the mines in the Saxony mining districts gives a somewhat slower increase of the terrestrial heat, or 1 degree to 76.
Edward Wright, in the introduction which he added to his master's great work, describes this proposal as "worth much gold.
Both of them under this strangely mixed impulse set themselves to embody their creed in a great work of art.
No great work of art can be usefully judged by comparison with any other great work of art.
Yes, he said, and he will have done a great work before he departs.
The word blood is not to be found in the index to Wissowa's great work, of which the supreme value is its accurate record of the religious law and all the ceremonies of the State.
That Scipio had some feeling of this kind need not be doubted, though the statue was not a great work of art like that of Phidias.
Westermarck's great work, which I have so often quoted: it is hardly to be found even in the Golden Bough: nor can I find a thoroughgoing treatment of it in any other books about the early history of mankind.
The successful end of a great work is often the beginning of a great reaction.
Without any narrowness or bigotry, inspired by Augustine's great work, it was a {438} Christian Republic of Plato that the future Lord Chancellor of England sketched for his generation.
Pressense's great work on the early years of Christianity, like its predecessor, has been specially prepared by its author for this English edition.
Hefele's great work on the history of Christian Councils.
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