An Essay on Genius"This book covers the following topics related to genius: the nature of genius; the province and criterion of genius; to what faculty of mind genius belongs; how genius arrives from the imagination; the influence of judgment upon genius; the dependence of genius on other intellectual powers; the general sources of the varieties of genius; qualities of ideas which produce association; the influence of the passions on association; reflections of the principles of association; ideas suggested, either by sensations, or by other ideas; the combination of associating principles; the predominance of the associating principles; flexibility of imagination; the varieties of memory, and their influence on genius; the varieties of judgment, and their influence on genius; the kinds of genius; genius twofold, for science, or the the arts; the structure of imagination which distinguishes the two kinds of genius; how the two kinds of genius differ in respect of the assistance which they derive from memory; how the two kinds of genius differ in respect of the assistance which they derive from judgment; the two kinds of genius farther compared and distinguished; taste essential to genius for the arts; the power of execution necessary to genius for the arts; and the union of different kinds of genius"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved). |
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... relations which are not the objects of sense . But many fubjects admit of the most copious invention , where the things invented are not relations . Whatever influ- ence , therefore , judgment may have in fome kinds of invention , and ...
... relations which are not the objects of sense . But many fubjects admit of the most copious invention , where the things invented are not relations . Whatever influ- ence , therefore , judgment may have in fome kinds of invention , and ...
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... relations of thofe perceptions with which it is fupplied by fense , memory , or imagination , and to produce conviction by its exertion . Of all the kinds of judgment , reafon has most the appearance of an inventive power , as it not ...
... relations of thofe perceptions with which it is fupplied by fense , memory , or imagination , and to produce conviction by its exertion . Of all the kinds of judgment , reafon has most the appearance of an inventive power , as it not ...
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... relations . It knits them together by other ties than what connected the real things from which they are derived ; and often be- ftows an union upon ideas whofe archetypes had no relation . In this operation , it is far from being ...
... relations . It knits them together by other ties than what connected the real things from which they are derived ; and often be- ftows an union upon ideas whofe archetypes had no relation . In this operation , it is far from being ...
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... relation to itself , but Funconnected with the general subject . These latter have only one tie , but the former have a double relation , and will therefore rush into the thoughts with double violence . They will occur and be obferved ...
... relation to itself , but Funconnected with the general subject . These latter have only one tie , but the former have a double relation , and will therefore rush into the thoughts with double violence . They will occur and be obferved ...
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Alexander Gerard. quickly puts it in our power to perceive all their confequences and relations to our fub- ject ... relation to one another and to the main fub- .ject ; will form only a confused heap , if they be not , by a proper ...
Alexander Gerard. quickly puts it in our power to perceive all their confequences and relations to our fub- ject ... relation to one another and to the main fub- .ject ; will form only a confused heap , if they be not , by a proper ...
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affiftance affociating principles affociating qualities alfo almoſt alſo arifes ariſes artiſt arts aſſociating cafe caufe cauſe circumftances co-exiſtence compariſon conclufions confequence confiderable connected connexion cuftom defcription defign degree difpofition diſcover diſcovery diſplay effect exerciſe exertions experience faid fame fancy fenfe fentiments fimilar firſt fome fometimes fpecies ftrength ftrongly fubject fuch ideas fufficient fuggeft genius gination greateſt himſelf imagination influence inftances introduce invention inveſtigation itſelf judgment kind lefs likewife manner meaſure memory ment mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary neceſſary nexion nius obferved objects occafion Orat paffion perceive perception perfect perfon philofopher PLIN poet poffeffed prefent principle of affociation produce purpoſe purſuing quæ real genius reaſon relations relations of ideas render reſemblance reſpect ſcarce ſcience ſcientific ſenſe ſeveral ſhow ſome ſtrong ſuch ſuggeſted tafte taſte thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion tural uſe variety καὶ τὸ
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