"<i>Michael Angelo</i> used to say, that a Statuary was a Man who only pared off Superfluities, since every Block of Marble contained in it all possible Forms; but without a <i>Phidias</i>, a <i>Praxiteles</i>, or a <i>Michael Angelo </i>himself, the Marble will lie for ever rude shapeless Mass in its Quarry."
A philosophical dissertation upon the inlets to human knowledge, in a letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend at London.
Philalethes, Gentleman in the country. <u>A philosophical dissertation upon the inlets to human knowledge, in a letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend at London</u>. The second edition [Dublin], 1740. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO