For instance, the building
materials used in various ages can afford their own lessons to understanding eyes.
But let us pass from this part of predictions (concerning which, nevertheless, more light may be taken from that which followeth); and let us speak first, of the
materials of seditions; then of the motives of them; and thirdly of the remedies.
Their short and simple annals could be eked out by confidences which would not appreciably enrich the
materials of the literary history of their time, and it seems better to leave them to the imagination of such posterity as they may reach.
Hence they are full of the most valuable
materials for the enlightenment of the working class.
When the artist has arranged his
materials with an eye to just proportion--the small and the large flakes in alternate rows, and separated by carefully- considered intervals--I know of nothing more cheerful to look upon than a spirited Syrian fresco.
"But," cried the tailor, in triumph, "what you do not know, monseigneur – prince of the church though you are - what nobody will know - what only the king, Mademoiselle de la Valliere, and myself do know, is the color of the
materials and nature of the ornaments, and the cut, the
The
materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed.
For this reason the Iliad and the Odyssey each furnish the subject of one tragedy, or, at most, of two; while the Cypria supplies
materials for many, and the Little Iliad for eight--the Award of the Arms, the Philoctetes, the Neoptolemus, the Eurypylus, the Mendicant Odysseus, the Laconian Women, the Fall of Ilium, the Departure of the Fleet.
A WISE and illustrious Writer of Fables was visiting a travelling menagerie with a view to collecting literary
materials. As he was passing near the Elephant, that animal said:
A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording the best
material for an effective resistance.
However, as nothing past in it which can be thought
material to this history, or, indeed, very
material in itself, I shall omit the relation; the rather, as I have known some very fine polite conversation grow extremely dull, when transcribed into books, or repeated on the stage.
This conception is the one handle by means of which the
material of history, as at present expounded, can be dealt with, and anyone who breaks that handle off, as Buckle did, without finding some other method of treating historical
material, merely deprives himself of the one possible way of dealing with it.