 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...the Baptist was shown to a Turkish emperor ; he praised many things, but he observed one defect ; he observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck. The sultan on this occasion, though his observation was very just, discovered no more natural taste... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pages
...the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperor ; he praised many things, but he observed o,ne defect ; he observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck. The sultan on this occasion, though his observation. was very just, discovered no more natural taste... | |
 | 1814 - 258 pages
...familiar with them, acquires a taste or judgment that enables him to discover beauties, or point at defects, where another, whose natural taste was equally...or want of taste in the painter, who probably had novcr seen a real head in this situation ; whereas such terrible spectacles were very familiar to his... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperor ; he praised many things, but he observed one defect; be observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck. The sultan on this occasion, though his observation was very just, discovered no more natural Taste... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperor ; he praised many things, but he observed one defect ; he observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck. The sultan on this occasion, though his observation was very just, discovered no more natural taste... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperour ; he praised many things, but he observed one defect; he observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck. The sultan on this occasion, though his observation was very just, discovered no more natural taste... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperor ; he praised many things, but he observed one defect ; he egree of care and calmness. Surely it is an awful subject ; or there is The sultan on this occasion, though his observation was very just, discovered no more natural taste... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 pages
...to intelligence than to ignorance.* — When the Turk saw a decollated head of John the Baptist, he observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck. When a rustic sees the fine picture of the Death of Seneca, he will perceive an aged man bleeding to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1844 - 232 pages
...the Baptist was shown to a Turkish emperor : he praised many things ; but he observed one defect : he observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck. The sultan on this occasion, though his observation was very just, discovered no more natural taste... | |
 | Thornton MacMahon - 1846 - 260 pages
...the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperor ; he praised many things, but he observed one defect ; he observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck. The sultan on this occasion, though his observation was very just, discovered no more natural taste... | |
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... reflected on the natural good taste of the painter, or of any common observer of his piece, than the want of an exact knowledge in the formation of a shoe. A fine piece of a decollated head of St. 
