United States or Gabon ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Some of them were baptized Christians living in the settlements of Baibai and Minondoc, on the other side of the river, opposite the city. The majority of them were fishermen, stonecutters, charcoal-burners, porters, masons, and day-laborers.
Here comes one among the well beloved stonecutters and plans with decision and science and sees the solid and beautiful forms of the future where there are now no solid forms. Of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest.
His competitors in the world imitate nature from memory, from convention, or from tradition. By such processes truth and beauty are lost at each step down the ladder of routine. Mr. Workers in gutta-percha, modelers in clay, washers and getters-up of linen, hoe-makers, spade-makers, rake-makers, woodcarvers, stonecutters, bakers, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum. Come to the hard-labor yard.
This work, which had been begun before in the German style, he undertook to do; and assisted by many stonecutters from Settignano, he brought it to perfect completion, making with his own hand, in the lunette of the façade, a Madonna with the Child in her arms, and certain angels who are holding open her mantle, under which the people of that city appear to be taking shelter, while S. Laurentino and S. Pergentino, kneeling below, are interceding for them.
Word Of The Day