 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | David Irving - 1804 - 524 pages
...propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...propensity for some certain science or employment,-which is commonly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...propensity for some certain science of employment, which is commonly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 pages
...with a view to the principles on which his critical decisions are founded.— Under Cowley, he defines genius, " a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction:" and wit, " a combination of dissimilar images; or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1812 - 572 pages
...propensity for some " certain science or employment, which is com" monly called genius. The true genius is a mind " of large general powers, accidentally determined " to some particular direction." Whether the circumstances which are likely to form the taste occur by chance, or result from design,... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 652 pages
...be true, as Johnson affirms, and this eminent philosopher seems to admit, that ' the true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction,' it must have been owing lo such accidental determination, that Dr Robertson appeared not eminent in... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...propensities and innate ideas; and Dr. Johnson has oracularly pronounced, that " the true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."* Yet, as the faculties of the mind are not simplo and uniform, but quite as various, as dissimilar,... | |
 | 1815 - 876 pages
...propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the grest painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. 
