ISBN: 9781154527469

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... See the hovering ships on the wharves! The Dannebrog waves, the workmen sit in circle under the shade at their frugal breakfasts; but foremost stands the principal figure in this picture; it is a boy who cuts with a bold hand the lifelike features in the wooden image for the beakhead of the vessel. It is the ship''s guardian spirit, and, as the first image from the hand of Albert Thorwaldsen, it shall wander out into the wide world. The swelling sea shall baptize it with its waters, and hang its wreaths of wet plants around it; nor night, nor storm, nor icebergs, nor sunken rocks shall lure it to its death, for the Good Angel that guards the boy shall, too, guard the ship upon which with mallet and chisel he has set his mark. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. THORWALDSEN IHE real business-like biographer begins | by telling when his subject first saw the light--by which he means when the man was born. In this instance we will go a bit farther back and make note of the interesting fact that Thorwaldsen was descended from an ancestor who had the rare fortune to be born in Rhode Island, in the year 1007. Wiggling, jiggling, piggling individuals with quibbling proclivities, and an incapacity for distinguishing between fact and truth, may maintain that there was no Rhode Island in the year 1007. Emerson has written, Nothing is of less importance on account of its being small. And so I maintain that in the year 1007, Rhode Island was just where it is now, and to the Cosmos quite as important. Let Pawtucket protest and Providence bite the thumb--no retraction will be madel About the year 1815 the Secretary of the Rhode Island Historical Society wrote Thorwaldsen informing him that he had been elected an honorary member of the Society, on account of his being the only I known... Elbert Hubbard, Books, History, Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists (Volume 1); Raphael. Leonardo. Botticelli. Thorwaldsen. Gainsborough. Velasquez Books>History, General Books LLC<

2012, ISBN: 1154527468

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2012, ISBN: 1154527468

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ISBN: 9781154527469

Elbert Hubbard, Created by General Books, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books, Biography & Autobiography~~Historical, Little-Journeys-to-the-Homes-of-Emine… Mehr…

Elbert Hubbard, Created by General Books, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books, Biography & Autobiography~~Historical, Little-Journeys-to-the-Homes-of-Eminent-Artists~~Elbert-Hubbard, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

2012, ISBN: 9781154527469

Trade paperback, New., Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white., Miami FL, [PU: General Books]