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Michelangelo professed that he makes nature more beautiful (più bella); Dolce wrote that the duty of a painter is to surpass (superar) nature, and G. Vasari (1550) stated that nature was conquered by art (natura vinta dall'arte; Vite, VII, 448).

MIMESIS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

Had the Dyaks been less intent on exhibiting their scorn, they might have noticed that when the boat drew back from the rushes it rode deeper in the water, and the little figure labored harder at the paddle as the vinta turned the bend and passed from sight.

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Again the vinta shot forward, down through the shifting, treacherous delta, out into the ocean.

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Quickly he dived, but not before a man in a vinta, headed that way, had seen him.

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Papita in her gala vinta and pushed her out into the stream.

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Whenever any trouble arises up the coast the Governor's official _vinta_ is despatched, manned by Moros, under the command of the Governor's messenger, Hadji Nuño, a parvenu _Datto_ whose name reveals his Spanish origin.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

The land messenger, as was expected, arrived first, and when the _vinta_ party reached the place of captivity,

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

The jungle came far out over the water, dangling her treacherous plant-life above them, ready to drag them from the vinta: it crept beneath them, shooting up in massive trees that obstructed their passage -- trees loaded down with parasites, intertwined, interlaced in hopeless confusion, each trying to crush and climb over the other in the fight for supremacy.

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Piang, without a moment's hesitation, offered to comply, and sent a _vinta_ up the river with the required order, but at the same time he secretly sent another emissary overland with contrary instructions.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

He wondered if the boat was a vinta from Borneo, or if it was loaded with copra for Japan.

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