 | English literature - 1798 - 752 pages
...fingle fentiment to them ; bat he qualified my mind to think juftly. No man had, like him, th< faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps...other men might have equal knowledge; but few were fo communicative. His great pleafure was to talk to thofe who looked up to him. It was here he exhibited... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses, if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment...my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge;... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these discourses, if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment...my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 624 pages
...I do not mean to say, though it certainly wouM be to the credit of these discourses, if 1 could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment...my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses, if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment...my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge;... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 476 pages
...do. not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses, if t could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment to them ; but he qua->lifted my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior minds the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses, if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment...my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1810 - 532 pages
...do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses, if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment...my mind to think justly. No man had, like him; the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge;... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these' Discourses if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment...qualified my mind to think justly. No man had like him the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...I do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these discourses if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment...my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge,... | |
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Whatever merit they have, must be imputed, in a great measure, to the education which I may be said to have had under Dr. Johnson. I do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses, if I could say it with truth, that... 
