...composition should be ruthlessly swept away. The second part of the definition : " A masterpiece is that to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken," must be kept carefully in mind. Henri Mayeux,* in the "Composition Decorative," says of what he calls...

...even though we are bound to guard it as carefully as we would our own life. The Gospel is the truth, to which nothing can be added, and from which nothing can be taken away. The more we consider it, the more we shall see that the Gospel is the greatest and most practical...

...•who is to be partaker of the inheritance. The "promises" are God's toi'CHant, his immutable will, to which nothing can be added, and from which nothing can be subtracted by any man. None must imagine that since God himself afterward gave the law, he is fickle,...

...is sufficient, and some would say that it is essential. are the guardians of the apostolic doctrine, to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken away V Again, he says : " As often as it has been defined that any article of doctrine belongs to the...

...established by the same rules we apply in other cases ; or, whether it is to be received as a gift, to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be subtracted. The spirit of all the words of the great teachers of mankind, the most beautiful, the profoundest....

...after thou hast run through all degrees of honour here, thou mayest attain to that everlasting reward, to which nothing can be added, and from which nothing can be taken, away. ' If the self-willed voluptuary ever read ticLatin letter, perhaps his conscience momentarily...

...expressed. A very good test is to apply an eminent writer's statement as to what a unit is. 'A unit is that to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken without destroying the idea for which the unit stands.' This test applied to any room will cause the...

...Every human being is born into the world with a distinct and complete and unalterable individuality, to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken away. He differs from every other individual, as one blade of grass or one leaf differs from every...

...says in an essay in his " Music and Life ", " a poem is a completed thing : it is a finished creation to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken away. . . . the value of the song is entirely musical. The composer can do nothing, absolutely nothing...

...century implied a new conception of architecture. Alberti's ideal of architectural harmony— the design to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken away without spoiling it— required the architect to be responsible for every detail of his building;...