 | James Fergusson - 1867 - 854 pàgines
...the extremes just named, but by grasping somewhere the happy mean between the two. For our present purpose, the great value of the study of these Indian...brain there are that cannot be expressed by its means. On the other hand, it is only by taking this wide survey that we appreciate how worthless any effort... | |
 | James Fergusson - 1876 - 814 pàgines
...the extremes just named, but by grasping somewhere the happy mean between the two. For our present purpose, the great value of the study of these Indian...of the human heart and brain there are that cannot bo expressed by its means. On the other hand, it is only by taking this wide survey that we appreciate... | |
 | James Fergusson - 1876 - 792 pàgines
...familiar with forms so utterly dissimilar from those we have hitherto been conversant with, that wo perceive how narrow is the purview that is content...brain there are that cannot be expressed by its means. On the other hand, it is only by taking this wide survey that we appreciate how worthless any product... | |
 | James Fergusson - 1876 - 790 pàgines
...widens so immensely our basis for architectural criticism. It is only by becoming familiar with forms st utterly dissimilar from those we have hitherto been...that architecture is as many-sided as human nature itsolf. and learn how few feelings and how few aspirations of the human heart and brain there are that... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 1890 - 572 pàgines
...mechanical restraint. All that is wild in human faith or warm in human feeling is found pourtrayed on these walls ; but of pure intellect there is little,...there are that cannot be expressed by its means." Fergusson, p. 403. These thoughtful and philosophical observations on architecture naturally suggest... | |
 | James Fergusson - 1891 - 786 pàgines
...that is content with one form or one passing fashion. By rising to this wider range we shall ]>erccive that architecture is as many-sided as human nature...brain there are that cannot be expressed by its means. On the other hand, it is only by taking this wide survey that we appreciate how worthless any product... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 1893 - 390 pàgines
...is 700 feet long. . . . Then come celestial beasts and celestial birds, and all along the east front a frieze of groups from human life, and then a cornice...brain there are that cannot be expressed by its means" (Fergusson, p. 403). These thoughtful and philosophical observations on architecture naturally suggest... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 1893 - 218 pàgines
...masonry, severe and god-like, but with no condescension to the lower feelings of humanity. "The Hallabid temple is the opposite of all this. It is regular,...few aspirations of the human heart and brain there arc that cannot be expressed by these means." CHAPTER IV. SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. THE closing chapter... | |
 | James Fergusson - 1899 - 398 pàgines
...the extremes just named, but by grasping somewhere the happy mean between the two. For our present purpose, the great value of the study of these Indian...brain there are that cannot be expressed by its means. On the other hand, it is only by taking this wide survey that we appreciate how worthless any product... | |
 | Benjamin Lewis Rice - 1902 - 494 pàgines
...walls; but of pure intellect there is little — less than there is of human feeling in the Parthenon. The great value of the study of these Indian examples...brain there are that cannot be expressed by its means. On the other hand, it is only by taking this wide survey that we appreciate how worthless any product... | |
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For our purpose, the great value of the study of these Indian examples is that it widens so immensely our basis for architectural criticism. It is only by becoming familiar with forms so utterly dissimilar from those we have hitherto been conversant with,... 
