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" Genius, like every other effect, as they must have their cause, must likewise have their rules; it cannot be by chance, that excellencies are produced with any constancy or any certainty, for this is not the nature of chance; but the rules by which men... "
In the Day's Work - Page 3
by Daniel Berkeley Updike - 1924 - 69 pages
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Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy by the President

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1778 - 360 pages
...likewife have its rules ; it cannot be by chance, that excellencies are produced with any conftancy, or any certainty, for this is not the nature of chance...the rules by which men of extraordinary parts, and fuch as are called men of Genius work, are either fuch as they difcover by their own peculiar obfervation,...
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Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1778 - 346 pages
...likewife have its rules ; it cannot be by chance, that excellencies are produced with any conftancy, or any certainty, for this is not the nature of chance;...the rules by which men of extraordinary parts, and fuch as are called men of Genius work, are either fuch as they difcover by their own peculiar obfervation,...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1792 - 630 pages
...likewife have its rules -t it cannot " be by chance, that excellencies are produced with any con" ftancy, or any certainty, for this is not the nature of chance...the rules by which men of extraordinary parts, and fuch " as are called men of genius, work, are either fuch as they *' difcover by their own peculiar...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1802 - 610 pages
...that excellencies are produced with any " conilancy, or any certainty, for this is not the na. ** ture of chance ; but the rules by which men of " extraordinary parts, and fuch as are called men of ** genius, work, are either fuch as they difcover by " their own peculiar...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 5

John Mason Good - 1819 - 800 pages
...mu«i have their cause, must likewise have their rules . it cannot be by chance thai excellencie» GEN are produced with any constancy, or any certainty,...parts, and such as are called men of genius, work, arc cither such as they discover by their own • peculiar observation, or of such a nice texture as...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 382 pages
...chance, that excellencies are " produced with any constancy, or any certainty, for this is not the •i nature of chance ; but the rules by which men- of...as are called men of genius, work, are either such '•i as they discover by their own peculiar observation, or of such a " nice texture as not easily...
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Somerset House Gazette and Literary Museum, Or, Weekly Miscellany of Fine ...

Art - 1824 - 436 pages
...excellencies are produced with any constancy or any certainty, for this Is not the nature of chance ; but tbe rules by which men of extraordinary parts, and such as are called men of genius work, ate either such as they discover by their own peculiar observations, or of such n nice texture as not...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Robert Walsh - American literature - 1829 - 554 pages
..."that where such excellence is produced with certainty and constancy, it cannot be by chance ; for that is not the nature of chance ; but the rules by which men of extraordinary parts work, are either such as they discover by their own peculiar observation, or of such nice texture as...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...they must have their cause, must likewise have their rules ; it cannot be by chance that excellences are produced with any constancy or any certainty,...extraordinary parts, and such as are called men of Genins, work, are either such as they discover by their own peculiar observations, or of such a nice...
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The Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 pages
...like every other effect, as they must have their cause, must likewise have their rules : it can not be by chance, that excellencies are produced with...parts, and such as are called men of Genius, work, arc either such as they discover by their own peculiar observations, or of such a nice texture as not...
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