master-builders

The system of design-build that we admire most, and try to replicate, is actually an age old practice when architects were master-builders.

Build Blog » DESIGN-BUILD: Behind the Scenes 2009

Doctors are a lot like medieval master-builders working on a cathedral: putting up a massive complex structure without being able to analyze too much beforehand, just trust to past experience, knowledge, and keen observation to adjust as you go.

Serendipity, Medicine, Pain Doctor Science 2008

Doctors are a lot like medieval master-builders working on a cathedral: putting up a massive complex structure without being able to analyze too much beforehand, just trust to past experience, knowledge, and keen observation to adjust as you go.

Archive 2008-01-01 Doctor Science 2008

The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty designs, in advancing the sciences, will leave lasting monuments to the admiration of posterity: but every one must not hope to be a

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

His countenance changed to every color in his fear, and he was betraying no small discomposure, when Onomastus, his freedman, came up and acquainted him that the master-builders had come, and were waiting for him at home.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

They seem to follow the example of Philoxenus and Gnatho, one of whom was a Sicilian of fulsome memory, the ancient master-builders of their monastic cram-gut voluptuousness, who, when some dainty bit was served up at a feast, filthily used to spit on it, that none but their nasty selves might have the stomach to eat of it, though their liquorish chops watered never so much after it.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

They seem to follow the example of Philoxenus and Gnatho, one of whom was a Sicilian of fulsome memory, the ancient master-builders of their monastic cram-gut voluptuousness, who, when some dainty bit was served up at a feast, filthily used to spit on it, that none but their nasty selves might have the stomach to eat of it, though their liquorish chops watered never so much after it.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

'The Great Nationalist of the Nineteenth Century;' the greatest of the master-builders of modern England.

The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

It is true, there are others employed under him; and some so excellent that they may be said to be "wise master-builders," 1 Cor.iii. 10; but yet all the efficacy of their labour in this building is not from themselves, but merely from him by whom they are employed.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

The Assembly appoints master-builders for the ships by vote; and if they do not hand them over completed to the next Council, the old Council cannot receive the customary donation-that being normally given to it during its successor's term of office.

THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION 1961