 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...painting, which improves partial repre- i sentation by the general and invariable ideas ' of nature. Every seminary of learning may be said to be surrounded...somewhat congenial to its own original conceptions. Knowledge, thus obtained, has always something more popular and useful than that which is forced upon... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 430 pages
...style of painting, which improves partial representation by the general and invariable ideas of nature. Every seminary of learning may be said to be surrounded...every mind may imbibe somewhat congenial to its own 6riginal conceptions. Knowledge, thus obtained, has always something more popular and useful than that... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 476 pages
...painting, which improves partial -representation by the general and invariable ideas of nature. • Every seminary of learning may be said to be surrounded...where every mind may imbibe somewhat congenial to ks own origU nal conceptions. Knowledge, thus obtained, has always something more popular and useful... | |
 | 1816 - 802 pages
...Joshua Reynolds haj remarked, in one of his academical Discourses, that "every seminary of learning is surrounded with an atmosphere of floating knowledge,...somewhat congenial to its own original conceptions.'^ He might have added, with still greater truth, that it is an atmosphere, of which it is more peculiarly... | |
 | 1823 - 434 pages
...permanent interest to the Royal Academy. Reynolds has somewhere observed,that everyExhibition might be said to be surrounded with an atmosphere of floating knowledge, where every mind may imbibe sometiling congenial to its own conceptions; and he praised the popular advantages of such a medium... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...style of painting, which improves partial representation by the general and invariable ideas of nature. Every seminary of learning may be said to be surrounded...somewhat congenial to its own original conceptions. Knowledge, thus obtained, has always something more popular and useful than that which is forced upon... | |
 | 1822 - 474 pages
...fascinating and agreeable lounge in the metropolis. We are here surrounded, as Sir Joshua Reynolds said, with an atmosphere of floating knowledge, where every...somewhat congenial to its own original conceptions. Knowledge thus obtained has always something more popular and useful than that which is forced upon... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...style of painting, which improves partial representation by the general and invariable ideas of nature. Every seminary of learning may be said to be surrounded...somewhat congenial to its own original conceptions. Knowledge, thus obtained, has always something more popular and useful than that which is forced upon... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...style of painting, which improves partial representation by the general and invariable ideas of nature. Every seminary of learning may be said to be surrounded...somewhat congenial to its own original conceptions. Knowledge, thus obtained, has always something more popular and useful than that which is forced upon... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...Joshua Reynolds has remarked, in one of his academical Discourses, that " every seminary of learning is surrounded with an atmosphere of floating knowledge,...somewhat congenial to its own original conceptions." t He might have added, with still greater truth, that it is an atmosphere, of which it is more peculiarly... | |
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Every seminary of learning may be said to be surrounded with an atmosphere of floating knowledge, where every mind may imbibe somewhat congenial to its own original conceptions. Knowledge, thus obtained, has always something more popular and useful than... 
