 No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge; but few were so communicative. His great pleasure was, to talk to those who looked up to him.  The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds - Side xxxiiav Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1886 - 572 sider
...Dr. Johnson. I do not mean to say that he contributed a single sentiment to them, but he qualified my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the...faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking." Locke says : "It is thinking that makes what we read ours." The power to think, to observe, analyze,... | |
 | 1887 - 454 sider
...Doctor Johnson. I do not mean to say that he contributed a single sentiment to them, but he qualified my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the...faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. PRIMARY WRITING.1 BY MARA L. PRATT, MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS. [Owing to misunderstanding on the part of... | |
 | 1890 - 770 sider
...for further atttainment. Examiners should find a way to weed out all such. Dr Johnson when he said, "No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking." Skill in teaching is something to be striven for. Study and practice are the great means of attainment.... | |
 | Sir Claude Phillips - 1894 - 474 sider
...if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment to them ; but he qualified my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the...faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking." The great difficulty in dealing, even in the merest outline, with the biography of Reynolds, is the... | |
 | Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower - 1902 - 362 sider
...great measure, to the education which I may be said to have had under Dr Johnson. . . . He qualified my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the...faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking." Reynolds' pocket, or note-books, in which he jotted down from year to year the names of his sitters,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1909 - 518 sider
...if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment to them ; but he qualified my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the...knowledge, but few were so communicative. His great to suppose,' said he, ' that I was infinitely impatient till I had taken a survey of my own performances... | |
 | 1923 - 896 sider
...in common life " ; and Sir Joshua recognised the same quality when he said : " Dr Johnson qualified my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the...faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking." If, in certain respects, Johnson recalls Aristotle, the comparison with Socrates is more obvious, and... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 sider
...that there was to be said for him there would be no stopping. Reynolds claimed that " he qualified my mind to think justly. No man had like him the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking." Johnson's peculiar excellence lay in his power of just distinguishing. It was often possible to predict... | |
 | 1880 - 668 sider
...a single sentiment to them, but he qualified my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the art of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps...other men might have equal knowledge, but few were so commud'-ative. His great pleasure was to talk to those who looked op to hrm And the observations which... | |
 | 130 sider
...to-day. "No man", said Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was a very acute observer of the contemporary scene, "had like him the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking", and not less, to use Johnson's own expression, "the art of living". JOHNSON AND THE LAW "Sin," said... | |
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