Doubtless it at first transcends our humble powers, to conceive laws capable of creating individual organisms, each characterised by the most exquisite workmanship and widely-extended adaptations.
Bad workmanship has been more or less unavoidable, since no one has yet had ten years' experience in building aeroplanes.
This is the original cellar and you can see how much rougher the workmanship is than in the newer parts.
There lay a large apartment, dimly lighted, but of better workmanship and finish.
Rough stones formed its floor and roof but the crude workmanship had been strong and only a few scattered stones had fallen during the centuries.
In bright daylight, the fine workmanship on the Toledo steel trimmings of the chest stood out in full beauty.
For a time I could not place it, and really it is a thing of unusual workmanship and not likely to be largely duplicated.
Toompang, are distinctly Buddhist and, what is most remarkable, though of later workmanship than those of Central Java and of a different style, tainted by decadent methods, they possess high merits as works of art.
The workmanship points to early date, and specimens of pagan architecture in the same neighbourhood enable us to fix the middle of the latter half of the second century (A.
Embosomed in olive and in ilex trees, it is rich in hoar cypresses, in urns, and in those pathetic fragments of old workmanship which an undergrowth of violets and acanthus half hides, and half reveals.
The portrait of Beatrice Cenci is most interesting as a just representation of one of the loveliest specimens of the workmanship of nature.
I dined there, and admired a beautiful present of plate from the King, the workmanship of which is finer here than anywhere, so that the cost of the labour is often ten times that of the metal.
The workmanship is exquisite, and the preservation nearly perfect.
In the development of human life few things are nobler than the growth of the professional spirit, where in wide areas of enterprise, not private gain, but fine workmanship and public service have become the major motives.
Why should the building of a schoolhouse be a carnival of private profit for labourers and contractors alike, when the teaching in it is expected to be full of the love of fine workmanship and the joy of usefulness?
I have seen several of such excellent workmanship that the welded seam could not be detected on the surface.
All are of inferior workmanship and, in common with all things of wood made by the Igorot, are the product of the man's art.
These fail from the following causes: Bad workmanship in laying up of brick.
Proper workmanship and simple construction, using materials which experience has shown to be the best, thus avoiding the necessity of early repairs.
In these hysterical times life is so full, so much is asked and so much has to be given, that tranquil writing and careful workmanship are impossible.
We may confidently assume that the woman represented is a Sumerian and not a Semitic Babylonian; and it may thus be regarded as a splendid counterpart to the Gudea statues, which by the whole character of workmanship it calls to mind.
It has the combined interest and beauty of size, loftiness and exquisite workmanship in stone and carved wood, with antiquity.
It is a remarkable group, interesting for its style andworkmanship as well as for its subject.
From its archaic style of workmanship it may be placed in the earliest period of Sumerian history, and may be regarded as an earnest of what may be expected to follow from the future labours of Prof.
There are also reliefs of the reign of Amenhetep I, which are remarkable for the delicacy of their workmanship and the sureness of their technique.
They are generally very much like one another; the workmanship of the reliefs is fine, and the portrait of the owner of the tomb is always in evidence.
It is of exactly similarworkmanship to that of Narmer, and is no doubt a fragment of another monument of that king.
Little attention is paid at present to the design and workmanship of these and like necessary appliances; yet if good of their kind they add more to the adornment of a room than a multiplicity of useless knick-knacks.
They produced an infinite variety of small meubles, in which beauty of design and workmanship were joined to simplicity and convenience.
Should I present them with rare figured plate, Or gold as rich in workmanship as weight; O how thy rising heart would throb and beat, And thy left side, with trembling pleasure, sweat!
That gentleman, taking a red-hot coal from the fire, dropped it on a bronze saucer of Indian workmanship which Enistor had selected from amongst the ornaments on the mantelpiece.
But what Alice looked at most was a snake bracelet of Indian workmanship in silver which clung round her right wrist.
And not one hair, neither mote, shall be lost, for it is the workmanship of mine hand.
Wherefore, for this shall the heavens weep, yea, and all the workmanship of mine hands.
Wherefore, I can stretch forth mine hands and hold all the creations which I have made; and mine eye can pierce them also; and among all the workmanship of mine hands there has not been so great wickedness as among thy brethren; 37.
Peroa laid the pieces of the chain together and observed the workmanshipwhich was Eastern and rare.
This casket was a master-piece of workmanship in ivory and gold.
It is entirely constructed of brick, even to the Corinthian capitals which ornament the exterior, and the workmanship shows it to belong to the best age of Roman architectural art.
The workmanship on the outside is elegant, and it appears to have been made by a German in 1525, by the subjoined inscription in the Bohemian of the time: Iar.
The object of them at first appears to have been rather to gratify the sight than to improve the understanding; and they contained more rarities of art, valuable pieces of workmanship and antiquities, than productions of nature.
And white and silver robes, all overwrought With cunning workmanship of tracery sweet-- Except among the Gods there can be nought In the wide world to be compared with it.
In respect to cost and workmanship it ranked with the important structures of the Northwest.
The design was indeed a beautiful one, and the workmanship of the seal, by Buechner, of St. Paul, was admirable.
Their contradictory character with regard to workmanship and style might cause one, with the most honest intentions, to hesitate, though their intrinsic value is not such as to cause the former country any great loss.
When the mind is not exercised in discerning the essential parts of an art, the eye is apt to look upon excessive neatness of workmanship as the certain evidence of perfection.
Here, assuredly, their wonted dignity of form and energy of workmanship appear somewhat incongruous qualities.
The workmanship of Hendrik Goltzius, for instance, and still more that of his pupil, Jan Mueller, is strained and feeble owing to their affectation of ease.
