 | Royal cabinet birthday book - 1884 - 260 pages
...Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. — Pope. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the mind. 25 — Meddle not with what concerns YOU not. — The mind in its own place, and in itself, can... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - Homiletical illustrations - 1885 - 908 pages
...education which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble, and that...sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often... | |
 | sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1885 - 456 pages
...to our former comparison :- — A statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and the art of the statuary clears away the superfluous matter and removes the...is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. Thus we see the statue sometimes only begun to be chipped, sometimes rough hewn and but just... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1885 - 476 pages
...comparison :—A statue hes hid in a block of marhle ; and the art of the statuary clears away ihe superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure...is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it: what sculptor is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. Thus we see the statue sometimes... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...education which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us ed in this proceeding. The motions of the sun and moon, in short, stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human... | |
 | Education - 1887 - 716 pages
...invisible." If these are not the things which we have, they are the things to be gained. As Addison says, — "The figure is in the stone, the sculptor only finds...sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." These are some of the thoughts that must come to the individual. Let us -KJW consider... | |
 | William A. Campbell - Readers - 1890 - 514 pages
...latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance. moves the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, the sculptor...sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lies hid... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - Quotations, English - 1890 - 426 pages
...ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. There is nothing so bad as not to be good for something. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the mind. Time, patience, and industry are the three great masters of the world. Lose no opportunity of... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1889 - 216 pages
...education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble, and that...and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.... | |
 | 1891 - 790 pages
...doctrine of substantial forms] that a statue lies hid in a block of marble. . . . The figure is in stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. — Addison. A drayman is probably born with as good organs as Milton, Locke, or Newton;... | |
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If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue... 
