Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Few have been taught to any purpose, who have not been their own teachers. We prefer those instructions which we have given ourselves, from our affection to... "
The Decorator's assistant - Page 103
Full view - About this book

Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1778 - 346 pages
...perfcverance. WE all .muft have experienced how lazily, and confequently how ineffectually, inftruction is received when forced upon the mind by others. Few have been taught to any purpofe who have not been their own teachers. We prefer thofe inftructions which we have, given ourfelves,...
Full view - About this book

Practical Education, Volume 2

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1801 - 372 pages
...is at last dismissed, and her education completed, the pupil is left both fatigued and helpless. " Few have been " taught to any purpose, who have not been their own " teachers," says Sir Joshua Reynolds. This reflection upon the art of teaching, may, perhaps, be too general ;...
Full view - About this book

Essays on Practical Education, Volume 2

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1815 - 526 pages
...is at last dismissed, and her education completed, the pupil is left both fatigued and helpless. " Few have been taught to any purpose, " who have not been their own teachers," says Sir Joshua Reynolds. This reflection upon the art of teaching may perhaps be too general; but...
Full view - About this book

The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ...: Containing His ..., Volume 1

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...thus he acquires a confidence in himself sufficient to keep up the resolution of perseverance;. We all must have experienced how lazily, and consequently...they are more effectual, from being received into the D 3 V , \ mind at the very time when it is most open and eager to receive them. With respect to 'the...
Full view - About this book

The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 13

1819 - 552 pages
...experienced how lazily,' says that illustrious man, ' and consequently how ineffectually, in' sktruction is received when forced upon the mind by others. Few...which we have given ourselves, from our affection to our instructor, and they are the more effectual, from being received into the mind, when it is most...
Full view - About this book

A Series of Easy Lessons in Landscape-drawing,: Contained in Forty Plates ...

Samuel Prout - 1820 - 96 pages
...hinderance. It should be remembered, that there is " no short way but the nearest way;" and that " few have been taught to any purpose, who have not been their own teachers." " Experience is all in all;" and those who will be at the trouble to do what others have done before...
Full view - About this book

The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 318 pages
...thus he acquires a confidence in himself sufficient to keep up the resolution of perseverance. We all must have experienced how lazily, and consequently...instruction is received when forced upon the mind by others.8 Few have been taught to any purpose, who have not been their own teachers. We prefer those...
Full view - About this book

Hints towards the formation of character, by a plain-spoken Englishwoman

Hints - 1843 - 344 pages
...tasks, will do little towards creating a love of the art. It was a saying of Sir Joshua Reynolds, that few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers. The majority of young ladies who now learn drawing, do so merely because drawing is considered one...
Full view - About this book

The abuses of the National gallery, by Verax. to which are added ...

Morris Moore - 1847 - 122 pages
...abuses I have exposed, and such as have attempted to invalidate the truth of my statements. f " We all must have experienced how lazily, and consequently...any purpose who have not been their own teachers." — SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. I " On whom can (the student) rely, or who shall show him the path that leads...
Full view - About this book

The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 201

1856 - 910 pages
...said to have had no superior among his contemporaries. " Few," says a great professor b of his art, " have been taught to any purpose, who have not been their own teachers ;" and this is emphatically true of Gainsborough. His style he formed for himself, in the fields of...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF