 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 sider
...axiom, that he who could by any means acquire and retain in his memory perfect ideas of the subjects he meant to draw, would have as clear a knowledge of...the alphabet, and their infinite combinations!" In this power of picturing in air the characters which composed his productions, Hogarth had great mastery.... | |
 | 1834 - 454 sider
...axiom, that he who could by any means acquire and retain in his memory perfect ideas of the subjects he meant to draw, would have as clear a knowledge of...of the alphabet and their infinite combinations." Acting on these principles, he improved by constant exercise his natural powers of observation and... | |
 | William Hogarth - 1833 - 538 sider
...that he who could by any means acquire and retain in his memory, perfect ideas of the -subjects he meant to draw, would have as clear a knowledge of...figure, as a man who can write freely hath of the twenty-four letters of the alphabet, ' and their infinite combinations (each of these being composed... | |
 | 1834 - 514 sider
...axiom, that he who could by any means acquire and retain in his memory perfect ideas of the subjects he meant to draw, would have as clear a knowledge of...of the alphabet and their infinite combinations." Acting on these principles, he improved by constant exercise his natural powers of observation and... | |
 | 1834 - 532 sider
...axiom, that he who could by any means acquire and retain in his memory perfect ideas of the subjects he meant to draw, would have as clear a knowledge of...of the alphabet and their infinite combinations.' Acting on these principles, he improved by constant exercise his natural powers of observation and... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1837 - 316 sider
...axiom, that he who could by any means acquire and retain in his memory perfect ideas of the subjects he meant to draw, would have as clear a knowledge of...write freely hath of the twenty-five letters of the alpha, bet, and their infinite combinations," In this power of picturing in air the characters which... | |
 | Henry Malden - 1838 - 528 sider
...axiom, that he who could by any means acquire and retain in his memory perfect ideas of the subjects he meant to draw, would have as clear a knowledge of...of the alphabet and their infinite combinations." Acting on these principles, he improved by constant exercise his natural powers of observation and... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 538 sider
...axiom, that he who could by any means acquire and retain in his memory perfect ideas of the subjects he meant to draw, would have as clear a knowledge of...of the alphabet and their infinite combinations." Acting on these principles, he improved by constant exercise his natural powers of observation and... | |
 | 1838 - 604 sider
...the whole, done so much towards the advancement of correct astronomy as the Observatory of Greenwich. as a man who can write freely hath of the twentyfive...of the alphabet and their infinite combinations." Acting on these principles, he improved by constant exercise his natural powers of observation and... | |
 | 1846 - 316 sider
...axiom, that he who could by any means acquire and retain in his memory perfect ideas of the subjects he meant to draw, would have as clear a knowledge of...the alphabet, and their infinite combinations." In this power of picturing in air the characters •which composed his productions, Hogarlh had great... | |
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I considered what various ways, and to what different purposes, the memory might be applied ; and fell upon one most suitable to my situation and idle disposition ; laying it down first as an axiom, that he who could by any means acquire and retain in... 
