 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pages
...own authority4, that by his recommendation the poems of Blackmore5, Watts6, Pomfret7, and Yalden8, could say it with truth, that he contributed even...them ; but he qualified my mind to think justly.' Northcote's Reynolds, ii. 282. See ante, \. 245. 1 The error in grammar is no doubt Boswell's. He was... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pages
...own authority4, that by his recommendation the poems of Blackmore5, Watts6, Pomfret7, and Yalden8, could say it with truth, that he contributed even...them ; but he qualified my mind to think justly.' Northcote's Reynolds, ii. 282. See ante, \. 245. ' The error in grammar is no doubt Boswell's. He was... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1888 - 378 pages
...education which I may be said to have had under Dr. Johnson. I do not mean to say that he contributed a single sentiment to them, but he qualified my mind...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,... | |
 | 1890 - 770 pages
...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 pages
...Johnson. I do not mean to say, though it would certainly be to the credit of these Discourses if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even...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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 pages
...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 he contributed even a single sentiment to them 2 ; but he qualified my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior... | |
 | Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower - 1902 - 362 pages
...imputed, in a 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,...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,... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1915 - 328 pages
...Johnson. I do not mean to say, though it would certainly be to the credit of these Discourses if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even...to them : but he qualified my mind to think justly. . . . The observations which he made on poetry, on life, and on everything about us, I applied to our... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1917 - 890 pages
...say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses if I could say it with d., p. 92. truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment...them ; but he qualified my mind to think justly." 3 This admission is virtually confirmed by Burke, who wrote to Malone : " You state very properly how... | |
 | 1923 - 976 pages
...Johnson. It was in 1754 that they met, and the friendship of thirty years began. Reynolds says of him : ' He qualified my mind to think justly : no man had, like him, the art of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking.' But of Reynolds himself Johnson said : ' When... | |
| |
Whatever merit these Discourses may 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... 
