 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1778 - 346 страници
...confult experience, we ihall find, that it is by being cdnverfant with the inventions of others, that we learn to invent; as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to thinks . : * •....•• • ' • • . . • •• WHOEVER has fo far formed his tafle, .as, to... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - 360 страници
...confult experience, we fhall find, that it is by being converfant with the inventions of others, that we learn to invent, as, by reading the thoughts of others, we learn to think. " Whoever has fo far formed his tafte, as to be able to relifh and feel the beauties of the great mafters, has gone... | |
 | 1815 - 1008 страници
...other», that we learn to invent, as by reading the thought» of others we learn to think. Whoever has so formed his taste as to be able to relish and feel the beauties of thegreatmasters,hasgone a great way in his study ; for merely from a consciousness of this relish of... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 476 страници
...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...beauties of the great masters, has gone a great way ;'n his study ; for, merely from a consciousness of this relish of the right, the mind swells with... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 382 страници
...stale, vapid, and uninteresting. that it is by being conversant with the invention of others, that we learn to invent ; as, by reading the thoughts of others, we learn to think." — — " The mind is but a barren soil ; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop,... | |
 | John Burnet - 1822 - 54 страници
...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 страници
...consult experience, we ihall find that it is by being conversant with the invention of others that we learn to Invent, as, by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think." — SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Price, India paper, 21s.; small paper, 12s. Mi. 2. CAMPAIGN of the LEFT WING... | |
 | John Thornton - 1829 - 228 страници
...consult experience, 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 think." Books open inexhaustible stores of information, to which we have easy and constant access. They record... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 страници
...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 to think. " The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its own stock : he who resolves never to ransack any... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 страници
...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 to think.' But he would caution the student against a confined and partial imitation. The formation of his own... | |
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Invention 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 to think. 
