...choice. Indeed, from all the circumstances related of his life, he appears not to have had the least conception that his art was to be acquired by any other means than great labour ; and yet he, of all men that ever lived, might make the greatest pretensions to the efficacy...

...choice. Indeed, from all the circumstances related of his life, he appears not to have had the least conception that his art was to be acquired by any other means than great labour ; and yet he, of all men that ever lived, might make the greatest pretensions to the efficacy...

...labour from necessity more than he did from choice: indeed, from all that \ч related oí him, lie appears not to have had the smallest conception that...means than incessant and unwearied diligence ; though^ n> Sir Joshua Reynolds justly remarks, he, of all raen that ever lived, might have advanced the strongest...

...choice. Indeed, from all the circumstances related of his life, ' he appears not to have had the least conception that his art was * to be acquired by any other means than great labour.'f Reynolds, however, was not one of those who are always prodigiously busy about trifles,...

...choice. Indeed, from all the circumstances related of his life, he appears not to have had the least conception that his art was to be acquired by any other means than great labour ; and yet he, of all men that ever lived, might make the greatest pretensions to the efficacy...

...choice. Indeed, from all the circumstances related of his life, he appears not to have had the least conception that his art was to be acquired by any other means than great labour; and yet he, of all men that ever lived, might make the greatest pretensions to the efficacy...

...choice. Indeed, from all the circumstances related of his life, he appears not to have had the least conception that his art was to be acquired by any other means than great labour ; and yet he, of all men that ever lived, might make the greatest pretensions to the efficacy...

...choice. Indeed, from all the circumstances related of his life, he appears not to have had the least conception that his art was to be acquired by any other means than great labour ; and yet he, of all men that ever lived, might make the greatest pretensions to the efficacy...

...choice. Indeed, from all the circumstances related of his life, he appears not to have had the least conception that his art was to be acquired by any other means than great labour; and yet he, of all men that ever lived, might make the greatest pretensions to the efficacy...

...painter. Destitute of the assistance of this intended treatise, the knowledge of his principles can now he gleaned only by the accurate observation and diligent...pains, or think the art of cheap and easy acquirement ! I cannot quite agree with our revered and excellent painter, that nothing but labour is necessary...