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But what a state of things is exhibited where the very name of industry, the virtue universally honored, the topic of so many human and divine inculcations, cannot be spoken without offering a bitter insult; where the heavy toil, denounced on man for his transgression, in the same sentence as death, is in vain implored as the greatest privilege; or thought of in despair, as a blessing too great to be attainable; and when the reply of the artisan to an unwitting admonition, that even amidst his work he might have some freedom for useful thinking, may be, "Thinking!
The sale of their products so brought down prices that farming was ruined, and their skilled and unskilled labour drove the artisans and labourers into the almshouses and highways. In a few years the national distress was so great that the Farmer, the Artisan, and the Labourer petitioned the King to reorganize the standing army.
The new science has found that earth's every atom has been slowly polished by an infinite artisan and architect. If we descend into the sea we shall find that the reefs and islands against which the tides of the Pacific dash in vain are built of coral insects, whose every organ exhibits the delicate skill of a diamond or snowflake.
Obscure or famous, rich or poor, an artist must be an artisan and practise these fruitful virtues patient application, conscientious technicality, absorption in work. When he seated himself at his table Dorsenne was heart and soul in his business.
The metal employed was of gold and copper; in the proportion of one part of the former to 430 of the latter. It is related that when these images were completed, the temple door proved too low to admit them, and the artisan Tori the Saddle-maker whose ingenuity overcame the difficulty without pulling down the door, received large honour and reward.
A man's employment, whatever it may be that he feels a need for in his own person, is also divided into four categories: the muscular employment of power, labor of the hands, feet, shoulders, back, hard labor, from which you sweat; the employment of the fingers and wrists, the employment of artisan skill; the employment of the mind and imagination; the employment of intercourse with others.
He took my hand, without the least indication on my part, in his hard lean grasp, and shook it kindly, but familiarly, peering with a stern sort of curiosity into my face as he continued to hold it. His ill-fitting, glossy black cloth, ungainly presence, and sharp, dark, vulpine features had in them, as I said before, the vulgarity of a Glasgow artisan in his Sabbath suit.
Would to heaven that I were a cobbler or a shepherd myself; I could have married according to my taste and have become the worthy father of a family, an honest artisan rather than a bad Curé. Yes, but Mademoiselle Durand would not have wanted you.
He said to you: 'Go on! without truce or rest and your labor shall be vain and every evening, throwing yourself on the hard ground, you shall be no nearer to the end of your eternal course! And so, for centuries, men without pity have said to the artisan: 'Work! work! work! without truce or rest and your labor shall be fruitful for all others, but fruitless for yourself and every evening, throwing yourself on the hard ground, you shall be no nearer to happiness and repose; and your wages shall only suffice to keep you alive in pain, privation, and poverty!"
What could be more admirable than the passage which points out that Southey, "who lived almost entirely with domestic women, actually died in the belief that he was a poet"? The pathos of the situation, and the Olympian stroke delivered in such a word as "domestic" cannot but fill any artisan of words with admiration. The essay, "Shakespeare and the Plain Man," is full of such delights.
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