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" ... a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties, until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs... "
The Addisonian miscellany, a selection from the Spectator, Tatler, and ... - Page 304
by Joseph Addison - 1801
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The Island Bride: In Six Cantos

John Hobart Caunter - 1830 - 254 pages
...polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection,...
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The Academical Reader: Comprising Selections from the Most Admired Authors ...

John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 pages
...every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance. 2. If my reader will...
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A grammar of the Spanish language for the use of the students in King's college

José María Jimenez de Alcalá - 1833 - 312 pages
...every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, afier the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance. Meaning of words. —...
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The Book of Versions; Or, Guide to French Translation: With Notes, to Assist ...

J. Cherpilloud - 1833 - 272 pages
...polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection,...
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Cobb's Sequel to the Juvenile Readers: Comprising a Selection of Lessons in ...

Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it. 2. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance. 3. If my reader will...
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Introductory Discourse, and the Lectures Delivered Before the ..., Volume 5

American Institute of Instruction - 1835 - 318 pages
...civilizing, refining and elevating the individual character. Or, as Addison phrases it, Education, " when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection." It gives men the faculty at least of judging between right and wrong, if it do not give...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection,...
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The Covenant: A Quarterly Periodical Devoted to the Cause of Odd-Fellowship

1842 - 630 pages
...the polisher brings out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud and vein that runs through the body of it, education after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection,...
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Portfolio of an Artist

Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 pages
...polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection,...
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