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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. "
The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ...: Containing His Discourses ... - Page 154
by Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819
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Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1778 - 346 pages
...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...
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Liberal Education, Or, A Practical Treatise on the Methods of ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - 360 pages
...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...
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 77

1815 - 1008 pages
...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...
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Volume 1

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 476 pages
...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...
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The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds : Comprising Original Anecdotes of ..., Volume 1

James Northcote - 1819 - 382 pages
...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,...
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Practical Hints on Composition in Painting

John Burnet - 1822 - 54 pages
...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....
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Somerset House Gazette and Literary Museum, Or, Weekly Miscellany of Fine ...

1824 - 436 pages
...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...
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Counsels and cautions for youth, in a ser. of letters

John Thornton - 1829 - 228 pages
...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...
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The literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds. To which is prefixed a ..., Volume 1

sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...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...
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Lectures on homiletics and preaching. With a preface, an appendix, and notes ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 pages
...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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