Excerpt from Practical Hints on Light and Shade in Painting: Illustrated by Examples From the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch SchoolsHaving thus defined some Of the characteristic features of shadow, the effects Of light in a great measure explain themselves, being In most instances of an Opposite nature. Its cheerful in&#64258;uence Operates on the mind of the spectator, either when viewing the festivities of a village holiday or when he beholds it diffused over the general face Of nature: it may be termed the Allegro in Painting.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Practical Hints on Light and Shade in Painting: Illustrated by Examples From the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch Schools (Classic Reprint)

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John, Burnet

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Excerpt from A Treatise on Painting: In Four Parts; Consisting of an Essay on the Education of the Eye, With Reference to Painting, and Practical Hints on Composition, Chiaroscuro, and ColourIN prefacing a work Of this brief description, where so many branches Of the Art Of Painting are introduced with little more than an enumeration Of their component parts, I ought to apologise, in the first instance, for thus attempting to convey any information which can be carried into practical usefulness in so small a compass: my motive for so doing was to give, if possible, an insight into the intricacies Of the Art, without distracting the attention of the reader by a multitude Of examples, whose union Often destroys the strong impression Of a single illustration. Though the varieties Of painting are endless, yet the properties Of which these varieties are composed are, as in music, few in number; I have endeavoured, therefore, to notice only the leading principles which must be known, and which by re&#64258;ection and Observation can be extended to an infinite series Of ramifications. The same simple rules which Should regulate the instruction Of beginners, I have endeavoured to point out as existing in the highest departments Of the Art, communicating by their presence that value which a vein Of gold imparts to a mass Of inferior matter. TO some it may appear that the subject is too.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Treatise on Painting: In Four Parts; Consisting of an Essay on the Education of the Eye, With Reference to Painting, and Practical Hints on Composition, Chiaroscuro, and Colour (Classic Reprint)

Greek Philosophy

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

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Excerpt from The Socratic Doctrine of the Soul First, however, it should be noted that there are many echoes of the phrase in all the Socratic literature. Xenophon uses it in con texts which do not appear to be derived from Plato's dialogues. Antisthenes, it seems, employed the phrase too, and he would hardly have borrowed it from Plato. Isocrates refers to it as something familiar.1 The Athenian Academy possessed a dialogue which was evidently designed as a sort of introduction to Socratic philosophy for beginners, and is thrown into the appropriate form of a conversation between Socrates and the young Alcibiades. It is not, I think, by Plato, but it is of early date. In it Socrates shows that, if any one is to care rightly for himself, he must first of all know what he is; it is then proved that each of us is soul, and therefore that to care for ourselves is to care for our souls. It is all put in the most provokingly Simple way, with the usual illustrations from Shoemaking and the like, and it strikingly confirms what is said in the Apology.2 I am not called upon to labour this point, however, for Maier admits, and indeed insists, that this is the characteristic Socratic formula. Let us see, then, where this admission will lead us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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