 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 Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds - الصفحة 96بواسطة Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 279عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...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. It is in vain for painters or poets to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...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. It is in vain for painters or poets to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...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. It is in vain for painters or poets to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...experience," says Sir Joshua Reynolds, "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." This is a truth which all writers have admitted as referring even to the most eminently endowed; and... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...experience," says Sir Joshua Reynolds, "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." This is a truth which all writers have admitted as referring even to the most eminently endowed; and... | |
 | Mary J. Howell - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 150
...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 next branch of Millinery on which we are about to treat, is that of Cap-making. And here the remark,... | |
 | William Laxton - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...genius; but if we consult experience, we shall 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." In these days we have every possible facility and inducement held out to us for the attainment of a... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 1050
...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 mind is but a barren soil;—is a soil soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...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 mind is but a barren soil;—is a soil soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless... | |
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