 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1778 - 346 Seiten
...particularly words of unpractifed writers, fuch as we are, can but very feebly fuggeft. i INVENTION '•'• INVENTION is one of the great marks of genius; but if we confult experience, we ihall find, that it is by being cdnverfant with the inventions of others, that... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - 360 Seiten
...who really excel in any art or profeffion will coincide with his opinions in the following paflage. " Invention is one of the great marks of genius; but if we confult experience, we fhall find, that it is by being converfant with the inventions of others, that... | |
 | 1815 - 1008 Seiten
...suppressed by the conviction of impossibility. " If we consult experience," continues our author, " we shall find that it is by being conversant with the inventions of other», that we learn to invent, as by reading the thought» of others we learn to think. Whoever... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 Seiten
...follow, but that the mind may be put in such a train, that it shall perceive, by a kind of scientifick sense, that propriety, which words, particularly words...marks of genius ; but if we consult experience, we s shall find, that it is by being conversant with the inventions ofjotHerg,.thait we learn to Invent... | |
 | John Burnet - 1822 - 54 Seiten
...consult experience, we sluill find, that it a by being conversant with the inventions of others tli.M we learn to invent, as, by reading the thoughts of others, we learn to think." — SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR; AND SOLD BY WH CARPENTER, LOWER BROOK.... | |
 | 1824 - 436 Seiten
...Illustrated by Examples from the Great Masters of ta» Italian, Flemish, and Dutch Schools. By John Burnet " Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but If we rnasult experience, we shall find that it is by being conversant with tsr Invention of others that... | |
 | John Thornton - 1829 - 228 Seiten
...written in a classical and engaging style. it bo continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. Invention is one of the great marks of genius; but...we shall find that it is by being conversant with (he inventions of others, that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others, we learn to... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 Seiten
...improvement of the experience and attainments of others. Sir Joshua Reynolds very justly observes, " that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others, that we learn to invent ; as it is by reading the thoughts of others, that we learn to think.'* He adds, " When we have had continually... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 Seiten
...passing, are as •worthy to be read for their sound philosophy, as for their good English,) observes: ' Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but...reading the thoughts of others, we learn to think.' But he would caution the student against a confined and partial imitation. The formation of his own... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 Seiten
...magnitude with which objects appear when viewed indistinctly, as through a mist. " — Discourse 7. " Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but...reading the thoughts of others we learn to think. " The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its own stock : he who resolves never to ransack any... | |
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Invention," says Sir Joshua Reynolds, " is one of the great marks of genius ; but, if we consult experience, we shall find that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn... 
