 If you have great talents, industry will improve them ; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour: nothing is to be obtained without it...  The Decorator's assistant - Page 128Full view - About this book
 | 1813 - 662 pages
...will improve them ; if you f have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency, ^f Nothing is denied to well-directed labour : nothing is to be obtained without it.'f When mentioning the causes of Gaiushorough's excellence, his love of the art, and unwearied exertions... | |
 | John Dougall - 1815 - 514 pages
...talents, industry will improve them : if you have moderate abilities, industry will in a great measure supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour : nothing is to be obtained without it. I will venture to assert that assiduity unabated by difficulties, and a disposition eagerly directed... | |
 | Alexander Jamleson - 1821 - 456 pages
...no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency....will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulties, and a disposition eagerly directed to the object of its pursuit, will produce effects... | |
 | L. Murray - 1821 - 620 pages
...dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them ; if you have moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency....nothing is to be obtained without it. Not to enter into metaphisical discussions on the nature o'r essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity... | |
 | John Imison - 1822 - 488 pages
...dependence on your own genius. If you. have great talents industry will improve them : if you have moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency....will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulties, and a disposition eagerly directed to the object of its pursuit, will produce effects... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...too often. You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them ; if you have but moderate abilities,...enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature and essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition... | |
 | 1822 - 474 pages
...words; viz. " You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities,...will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well directed labour: nothing is to be obtained without it. Not to enter into metaphysical discussions... | |
 | 1833 - 270 pages
...too often. You must have no dependence on your own genets. If you have great talents, industry will improve them ; if you have but moderate abilities,...well-directed labour ; nothing is to be obtained without it. SIR JOSHUA. REYNOLDS. THE difference between prejudices and other opinions doth not consist in this,... | |
 | 1833 - 438 pages
...too often. You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them ; if you have but moderate abilities,...their deficiency. Nothing is denied to welldirected labor; nothing is to be obtained without it. CITY OF QUEBEC. Quebec, the capital of Lower Canada, is... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...too often. You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities,...their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor ; nothing is to be obtained without it.—Sir Joshua Reynolds. PLATO entertained some of his... | |
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