The passion for analysing has even induced some to assert that all true Gaelic Primitives consist of but one syllable, that all Polysyllables are either derived or compounded, and therefore that there is room to search for their etymon.
In the flickering light of the candles El Greco's Saint mounted upwards like a wreath of smoke, the gold of the Primitives gleamed in the shadows.
These words fell unheeded, and old Guinardon from his ladder held forth: "Only the primitives caught a glimpse of Heaven.
Now this regional distribution of things and that of the clans coincide (see De quelques formes primitives de classification, pp.
See Durkheim and Mauss, De quelques formes primitives de classification, in Annee Sociologique, VI, pp.
On this point, see Durkheim and Mauss, De quelques formes primitives de classification, in the Annee Sociologique, Vol.
See Durkheim and Mauss, De quelques formesprimitives de classification, in Annee Sociologique, VI, p.
For six years we’ve had the pulpit done with ’em, and the Primitives has been and got the promise of them.
And folks’ll have to answer back, ‘Primitives has got ’em.
The Primitives has got our apples,” burst forth Sam, before he was well inside the room.
They are buoyantly ready for anything, and not to be beaten even by Fate or nieces who are hot Primitives safely in possession of a desired object.
The first extends from the primitives to the end of Giovanni Bellini's life.
Here we have an enchanter such as the Primitives were and the Impressionists are, like Massys and Manet, like Duerer and Degas, like all who have looked Nature in the face.
Those subdivisions are only accessories, holding the same relation to the whole, that the secondary colours do to the primitives of the Rainbow.
Even if this is denied it must at least be admitted that to France belongs the credit of having kept primitives when the other nations knew them no longer.
Luckily we can form a notion of the Penguin primitivesfrom the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch primitives, and from the French primitives, who are superior to all the rest; as M.
I picture to myself the Penguin primitives in conformity with the works of that master.
The Exhibition of French Primitives at the Pavilion Marsan in 1904 contained several little panels contemporary with the later Valois kings and with Henry IV.
The Primitivesbelieved otherwise--fancied that camp meetings would be productive of much Christian blissfulness, and thought that females had as much right to give pulpit as caudle lectures.
The value of the tapestries is enormous, they are the work of eminent men--but the heart turns away from them and revels again in the Primitives and the Italians of the Cinque Cento.
With the artists who might be called primitives we have almost finished in the end of the Fifteenth Century.
Thus the Primitives struck a more intimately human note than the artists of later and more sophisticated times.
It was at first only a mild reaction, and showed itself in a return to the classics of the past and to the great primitives in music.
This school, founded on a solid knowledge, not only of the classics, but of the primitives in music, took from its very beginning in 1900 a frankly national character, and was in some ways opposed to German art.
Though we may not always be as patient toward them as we should be, it is our acceptance that the astronomic primitives have done a great deal of good work: for instance, in the allaying of fears upon this earth.
To the primitivesthere is not a reason in the world why a convulsion of this earth's surface should be accompanied by unusual sights in the sky, by darkness, or by the fall of substances or objects from the sky.
Both the whites and the primitives seemed to recall that once they knew how to celebrate.
He studied the Italian primitivesand simplified them with Byzantine and Raphaelic addenda.
It embraces only the rudimentary aesthetic organisations that are found in Japanese art, the works of the Byzantine masters, the primitives of France and the pictures of Botticelli, Manet and Gauguin.
Great art is as a rule too compounded for their analytical powers, and they end by imagining that the primitives and the mosaicists represent the highest and most conscious type of the creative will.
And since the Cubists were the primitives of a new era, it was natural that this precision should express itself in straight lines and angular forms.
The primitives of these countries and of Germany had used colour because the religious qualities in their pictures became more realistic when nature's general tints were employed.
Later, the earlyprimitives used symmetrical groupings for the same purpose of interior decorating.
Biblical students choose the primitives or the painters of religious subjects.
But we will answer simply that we are, to the contrary, the primitives of a new and centuple sensitivity, and that our art is drunk with spontaneity and power.
Does not this explain his aversion to the primitivesin whom he saw but the rudiments of art?
That which the primitives had to say was so rudimentary and well-learned that it took a definite visional form in their minds.
John Evelyn himself began the dreary round of tropes andprimitives almost as early.
He is also reminiscent of the Primitives and of Holbein.
One may wish pictorial art to have higher ambitions; and one may find in the Primitives an example of a curious mysticism, an expression of the abstract and of dreams.
As to the purpose of the ceremony, there are those who maintain that entertainment is the main incentive, but the celebration or holiday seems to be a secondary consideration according to the explanation of the primitives themselves.
Great movements are alike in their beginnings; whether they are Buddhist or Byzantine, Greek or Egyptian, Assyrian or Mexican, their primitives have two qualities in common, profundity and directness.
Primitives stand in a class by themselves because they have perceived more clearly than others the reality that lies beneath the superficial, and because, having no other end in view, they have expressed it more completely.
Thus highwayman, woodman, and horsecourser, require an explanation; but of thieflike or coachdriver no notice was needed, because the primitives contain the meaning of the compounds.
The two languages from which our primitives have been derived are the Roman and Teutonick: under the Roman I comprehend the French and provincial tongues; and under the Teutonick range the Saxon, German, and all their kindred dialects.
The primitives or radicals to which these are prefixed, are not many of them employed separately in English.
Most of those words which are regarded as primitives in English, may be traced to ulterior sources, and many of them are found to be compounds or derivatives in the other languages from which they have come to us.
Words, derivation of, treated --most of those regarded as primitivesin Eng.
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