...configuration or perfection underlying things. "A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albrecht Diirer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometric proportions, the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent."60...

...strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albrecht Durer were the more trifter; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions: the other by taking the best part out of divers faces to make one excellent.' Sir Francis Bacon Such a discerning student of natural...

...that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Diirer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think a painter...