 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pagine
...to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition...those which some call the result of natural powers. Though a man cannot at all times, and in all places, paint or draw, yet the mind can prepare itself... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pagine
...essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity, unabated by difficulty, and a disfiosition eagerly directed to the object of its pursuit, will...similar to those which some call the result of natural fiowers." Johnson has touched on this topic in his Rambler, and, in the person of Imlach, we are instructed,... | |
 | sir Martin Archer Shee - 1809 - 438 pagine
...be completely supplied, that is, want of strength of parts. In this certainly men are not equal ;" and again, " Carlo certainly, by diligence, made the...qu'on portat 1'education, qu'on n'imagine cependant pas^qu'on fit des gens de genie de tous les hommes a portee de la recevoir." HELVETIUS, De 1'Homme.... | |
 | Martin Archer Shee - 1809 - 466 pagine
...cannot be completely applied, that is, want of strength of parts. In this certainly men are not equal;" and again, " Carlo certainly, by diligence, made the...genius : " A quelque degre de perfection qu'on portat 1'educalion, qu'on n'imagine cependant pas qu'on fit des gens de genie de tous les homines a portee... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 476 pagine
...to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition...those which some call the result of natural powers. Though a man cannot at all times, and in all places, paint or draw, yet the mind can prepare itself... | |
 | John Dougall - 1815 - 514 pagine
...nothing is to be obtained without it. I will venture to assert that assiduity unabated by difficulties, and a disposition eagerly directed to the object of...those which some call the result of natural powers." The young draughtsman therefore who refuses to acquire a competent knowledge of the principles of geometry,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 pagine
...to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition...those which some call the result of natural powers. Though a man cannot at all times, and in all places, paint or draw, yet the mind can prepare itself... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pagine
...to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition...those which some call the result of natural powers. Though a man cannot at all times, and in all places, paint or draw, yet the mind can prepare itself... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 pagine
...to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty and a disposition...those which some call the result of natural powers." — Vol. I. p. 44. The only tendency of the maxim here laid down seems to be to lure those students... | |
 | Alexander Jamleson - 1821 - 456 pagine
...the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulties, and a disposition eagerly directed to the object of...those which some call the result of natural powers. Though a man cannot at all times, and in all places, paint or draw, yet the mind can prepare itself... | |
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... talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour: nothing is to be obtained without it. Not to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature... 
