 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 pages
...was to say all 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...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... | |
 | 1923 - 1004 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... | |
 | 1880 - 668 pages
...education which I may be said to have had under Dr. Johnson. I do not mean to say that he added eren 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... | |
 | 1845 - 794 pages
...certainly would be to the credit of these discourses if I could say it with truth, that he contributed a single sentiment 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 art,... | |
 | 130 pages
...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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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... 
