 | Benjamin Robert Haydon, William Hazlitt - Arts - 1838 - 244 pages
...several purposes of mankind; in which sense art stands opposed to nature. Art is principally used for a system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions ; in which sense it stands opposed to science, or a system of speculative principles. Arts are commonly... | |
 | JOHN FORBES - 1838 - 626 pages
...by a barber or butcher properly instructed in his method.* But art, in its higher sense, implies " a system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions;" or, in the words of Sir J. Herschel, (the worthiest representative of Bacon in our time,) it is " the... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1838 - 244 pages
...several purposes of mankind; in which sense art stands opposed to nature. Art is principally used for a system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions ; in which sense it stands opposed to science, or a system of speculative principles. Arts are commonly... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...act of wilfully setting houses on fire, which is felony at common law, and likewise by statute. ART, a system of rules, serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; in which sense it stands opposed to science, or a system of merely speculative principles. Terms of... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1847 - 454 pages
...power of performing certain works — the disposition or modification of things by human skill — a system of rules, serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions. The following reasons are presented to induce conviction in the affirmative of the preceding question:... | |
 | John Boag - English language - 1848 - 790 pages
...things by human skill, to answer the purpose intended. In this sense, art stands opposed to nature. A system of rules, serving to facilitate the performance...opposed to science, or to speculative principles. Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions acquired by experience, study, or observation.... | |
 | John Boag - English language - 1848 - 816 pages
...things by human skill, to answer the purpose intended. In this sense, art stands opposed to nature. A system of rules, serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; opposed to teience, or to speculative principles. Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions... | |
 | George Tayler - Tax exemption - 1851 - 136 pages
...(from Bacon) The disposition or modification of things by human skill to answer the purpose intended. 2. A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance...dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions. art, as well as practical rules for doing, includes the doing of the thing. The primary meaning of... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1851 - 444 pages
...nubАнт, TL. [L. arg.] The disposition or modification of things by human skill, аи opposed to nature ; a system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions aa opposed to science, as the art of building; skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...and falls in another ; properly speaking, it is the rise and fall of the hand in beating time. ART, a system of rules, serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions ; in which sense it stands opposed to science, or a system of merely speculative principles. — Terms... | |
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Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study or observation. 
