 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...detailing the mechanical composition of such and such colors, in such and such proportions, rubbed so and so ; or perhaps they would have shown him how they laid them on ; but oven this would leave him at the critical point. Opie preferred going to the quick and the heart of... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 470 pages
...proportions, rubbed up so and so ; or perhaps they would (and so much the better, but not the best) have shown him how they laid them on ; but even this...at the critical point. Opie preferred going to the quick and the heart of the matter : " With Bruins, sir." Sir Joshua Reynolds was taken by a friend... | |
 | John Brown - Medicine - 1861 - 548 pages
...proportions, rubbed up so and so ; or perhaps they would (and so much the better, but not the best) have shown him how they laid them on ; but even this...at the critical point. Opie preferred going to the quick and the heart of the matter : " With Brains, Sir." Sir Joshua Reynolds was taken by a friend... | |
 | John Brown - Dogs - 1862 - 360 pages
...proportions , rubbed up so and so; or perhaps they would (and so much the better, but not the best) have shown him how they laid them on; but even this...at the critical point. Opie preferred going to the quick and the heart of the matter: "With Brains, Sir." Sir Joshua Reynolds was taken by a friend to... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...detailing the mechanical composition of such and such colours, in such and such proportions, rubbed so and so; or perhaps they would have shown him how...at the critical point. Opie preferred going to the quick and the heart of the matter: "With brains, sir." Sir Joshua Reynolds was taken by a friend to... | |
 | John Brown - Ballooning - 1866 - 192 pages
...proportions, rubbed up so and so; or perhaps they would (and so much the better, but not the best) have shown him how they laid them on; but even this...at the critical point. Opie preferred going to the quick and the heart of the matter: " With Brains, Sir." Sir Joshua Reynolds was taken by a friend to... | |
 | John Brown - Ballooning - 1866 - 192 pages
...proportions, rubbed up so and so; or perhaps they would (and so much the better, but not the best) have shown him how they laid them on; but even this...at the critical point. Opie preferred going to the quick and the heart of the matter: cc With Brains, Sir." Sir Joshua Reynolds was taken by a friend... | |
 | David Nasmith - German language - 1870 - 280 pages
...or, perhaps, t/,ey would have shown him funo they laid them on. But even this would leave him at l/,e critical point. Opie preferred going to the heart...of the students of the Royal Academy. One student eекте up to him and said, " How should I do this, sir ? " " Suppose you try." Another said, " What... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers - 1872 - 418 pages
...detailing the mechanical composition of such and such colors, in such and such proportions, compounded so and so; or perhaps they would have shown him how...at the critical point. Opie preferred going to the quick and the heart of the matter : " With Brains, sir." 3. Sir Joshua Reynolds was taken by a friend... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 pages
...the 'mechanical composition of such and such colours, in such and such 'proportions, compounded BO and so ; or perhaps they would have shown him how they laid them on : but even this would have left him at the critical point. Opie preferred going to the quick and the heart of the matter... | |
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... have shown him how they laid them on; but even this would leave him at the critical point. Opie preferred going to the quick and the heart of the matter : 
