 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1784 - 516 pages
...things is perfectly fufficient to convey a knowledge of the objeft they are intended to reprefent; but the carving is not executed with the nicety that a dexterous artift would beflow even upon an indifferent defign., ' The fame, however, cannot be faid of many of... | |
 | 1786 - 838 pages
...tilings is perfectly fiifficient to convey a knowledge of the object they are intended to reprefent ; but the carving ^is not executed with the nicety that a dexterous artifl,would heftow even upon an indifferent deiign. The fame, however, cannot kjfaidof many of ihehuman... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1804 - 310 pages
...bone- weapons. The general design of these things is sufficient to tonvey a knowledge of the objects they are intended to represent; but the carving is not executed with the nicety that an European artist would bestow even upon an indifferent design. This, however, cannot be said of many... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 pages
...but the most general representation is that of the human face, which is often cut out upon birds, and the other monstrous figures mentioned before ; and...said of many of the human masks and heads; where they shew themselves to be ingenious sculptors. They not only preserve, with great exactness, the general... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 526 pages
...but the most general representation is that of the human face, which is often cut out upon birds, and the other monstrous figures mentioned before ; and...said of many of the human masks and heads; where they shew themselves to be ingenious sculptors. They not only preserve, with great exactness, the general... | |
 | James Cook - Voyages and travels - 1842 - 644 pages
...but the most general representation is that of the human face, which is often cut out upon birds, and the other monstrous figures mentioned before ; and...said of many of the human masks and heads, where they show themselves to be ingenious sculptors. They not only preserve, with exactness, the general character... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 pages
...but the most general representation is that of the human face, which is often cut out upon birds, and the other monstrous figures mentioned before ; and...said of many of the human masks and heads; where they shew themselves to be ingenious sculptors. They not only preserve, with great exactness, the general... | |
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Nothing is without a kind of frieze-work, or the figure of some animal upon it ; but the most general representation is that of the human face, which is often cut out upon birds, and the other monstrous figures mentioned before ; and even upon their stone... 