 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages. The mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of fire, which is smothered by a heap of fuel, and... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...practice of those whose works may be said to have been con »ecrated by having stood the test of ages. The mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Agriculture - 1825 - 892 pages
...ill-shaped, and confused ; but which are finished, and put in order, by the authority and prac* tice of those whose works may be said to have been consecrated,...endeavour to copy the exact peculiar colour and complexion ef another man's mind ; the success of Such an attempt must always be like his who imitates exactly... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages. cc 3 The mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of fire, vrhich is smothered by a heap of fuel,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1842 - 318 pages
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill- shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...have been consecrated, by having stood the test of ages.7 The mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of fire, which is smothered by a heap of fuel,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages. 286.— OF SECURITY. JEEEMY BENTHAM. [JEREMY BENTHAM, in many respects one of the most distinguished... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Henry William Beechey, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason - Aesthetics, Modern - 1852 - 518 pages
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages. V The mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of fire, which is smothered by a heap of fuel,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 398 pages
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages. The mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of fire, which is smothered by a heap of fuel, and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Education - 1887 - 286 pages
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages. THE mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of fire, which is smothered by a heap of fuel, and... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 330 pages
...consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo — feeble, ill-shaped, and confused — but which are finished and put in order by the authority...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages. The mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of v fire, which is smothered by a heap of fuel,... | |
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... confused manner in which those collections have been laid up in his mind. The addition of other men's judgment is so far from weakening our own, as is the opinion of many, that it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in... 
