 | John Galt - 1820 - 452 pages
...began by remarking that the event intended to be commemorated took place on the 13th of September, 1758, in a region of the world unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no such nations, nor heroes in their costume, any longer existed.... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1830 - 374 pages
...dissertation on the state of the public taste in this country, and the danger which every innovation incurred of contempt and ridicule, and concluded by...in a region of the world unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore such costume existed. The subject I have... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1833 - 292 pages
...dissertation on the state of the public taste in this country, and the danger which every innovation incurred of contempt and ridicule, and concluded by...more becoming the greatness of my subject than the modem garb of European warriors. I answered, that the event to be commemorated happened in the year... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1831 - 292 pages
...dissertation on the state of the public taste in this country, and the danger which every innovation incurred of contempt and ridicule, and concluded by...adopt the costume of antiquity, as more becoming the great, nessof ray subject than the modern garb of European warriors* I answered, that the event to... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 614 pages
...asked his opinion ; they both came to my house tu dissuade me from running so great a risk. I remarked, that the event to be commemorated happened in the year 1758, in a region of the world unknown to the Ore- ks and Rumans, and nt t* S8 period of time when no warriors who wore their costume existed. That... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 854 pages
...dissertation on the state of the public taste in this country, and the danger which every innovation incurred of contempt and ridicule, and concluded by...the year 1758, in a region of the world unknown to Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore such costume existed. The subject... | |
 | William Dunlap - Art - 1834 - 448 pages
...dissertation on the state of the public taste in this country, and the danger which every innovation incurred of contempt and ridicule, and concluded by...the year 1758, in a region of the world unknown to Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore such costume existed. The subject... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 260 pages
...asked his opinion ; they both came to my house to dissuade me from running so great a risk. 1 remarked, that the event to be commemorated happened in the...in a region of the world unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors whowore their costume existed. That the subject I... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...dissertation on the state of the public taste in this country, and the danger which every innovation incurred of contempt and ridicule, and concluded by...the year 1758, in a region of the world unknown to Greeks and Romans, and in a period of time when no warriors wearing such costume existed. The subject... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...dissertation on the state of the public taste in this country, and the danger which every innovation incurred of contempt and ridicule, and concluded by urging me earnestly to adopt tin- costume of antiquity, as more becoming the greatness of my subject than the modern garb of European... | |
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European warriors. I answered that the event to be commemorated happened in the year 1758, in a region of the world unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore such costume existed. The subject I have to represent... 
