| 1810 - 590 pages
...introduce among the artisans a taste for elegance and beautiful forms. Large rooms well lighted by Argand's lamps contain every evening some hundreds of young...relievo or living models, while others copy drawings of fjrniture, chandeliers, or other ornaments in bronze. In this assemblage (and this is very remarkable... | |
| English literature - 1811 - 596 pages
...among the artisans a taste for elegance and beautiful forms. Large rooms, well lighted by Argand's lamps, contain every evening some hundreds of young...is very remarkable in the midst of a country Where the prejudices of the nobility against the casts are so inveterate) rank, colour, and race is confounded... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - Mexico - 1811 - 364 pages
...amoni, the artisans a taste for elegance and beautiful forms. Large rooms, well lighted by Argand's lamps, contain every evening some hundreds of young...assemblage (and this is very remarkable in the midst ot a country where the prejudices of the nobility against the casts are so inveterate) rank, colour,... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - Industries - 1811 - 666 pages
...rooms well lighted by Argand's lamps, contain every evening some hundreds of young people, some of whom draw from relievo or living models, while others copy...is very remarkable in the midst of a country where the prejudices of the nobility against the castes are so inveterate) rank, colour and race are confounded... | |
| English poetry - 1811 - 1054 pages
...among the artisans a taste for elegance and beautiful forms. Large rooms, well lighted by Argand's lamps, contain every evening some hundreds of young...furniture, chandeliers, or other ornaments in bronze. Jn this assemblage (and this is very remarkable in the midst of a country where the prejudices of the... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - Industries - 1814 - 480 pages
...among the artisans a taste for elegance and beautiful forms. Large rooms, well lighted by Argand's lamps, contain every evening some hundreds of young...is very remarkable in the midst of a country where the prejudices of the nobility against the casts are so inveterate) rank, colour, and race is confounded... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 488 pages
...introduce among the artisans a taste for elegance and beautiful forms. Large rooms, well lighted by Argand lamps, contain every evening some hundreds of young...is very remarkable in the midst of a country, where the prejudices of the nobilitv against the casts are so inveterate) rank, color, and race are confounded... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander freiherr von Humboldt - 1824 - 364 pages
...rooms well lighted by Argand's lamps, contain every evening some hundreds of young people, some of whom draw from relievo or living models, while others copy...is very remarkable in the midst of a country where the prejudices of the nobility against the castes are so inveterate) rank, colour and race are confounded... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - Mexico - 1824 - 364 pages
...rooms well lighted by Argand's lamps, contain every evening some hundreds of young people, some of whom draw from relievo or living models, while others copy...is very remarkable in the midst of a country where the prejudices of the nobility against the castes are so inveterate) rank, colour and race are confounded... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - Mexico - 1824 - 376 pages
...beautiful forms. Large rooms well lighted by Argand's lamps, contain every evening some hundreds of living models, while others copy drawings of furniture,...is very remarkable in the midst of a country where the prejudices of the nobility against the castes are so inveterate) rank, colour and race are confounded... | |
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