 ... a quick and sagacious penetration into the true essence of all the objects of our contemplation.  Science - Síða 129 breytti - 1880Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | Robert Alexander Cameron Macmillan - 1912 - 384 síður
...fernunft : Hartenstein, iii. p 138. no other than invention and judgment." But invention, he continues, " can rarely exist without the concomitancy of judgment,...discovered the true essence of two things, without discerning their difference, seems to me hard to conceive. Now this last is the undisputed province... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1917 - 556 síður
...to it; whereas by invention is really meant no more (and so the word signifies) than discovery, or finding out; or to explain it at large, a quick and...essence of all the objects of our contemplation. This, 1 think, can rarely exist without the concomitancy of judgment; for how we can be said to have discovered... | |
 | John Buchan - 1923 - 746 síður
...invention and judgment." And what does he mean by invention ? Not a creative faculty, but discovery, or finding out ; or to explain it at large, a quick and...contemplation. This, I think, can rarely exist without the cohcomitancy of judgment. Examine your heart, my good reader, and resolve whether you do believe these... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1925 - 428 síður
...objects of ourcontemplation. This I think, can rarely exist without the concormtancy of judgment j for how we can be said to have discovered the true essence of two things, without discerning their difference, seems to me hard to conceive. Now this last is the undisputed province... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1926 - 320 síður
...to it; whereas by invention is really meant no more, (and so the word signifies) than discovery, or finding out ; or to explain it at large, a quick and...judgment : for how we can be said to have discovered VOL. II S the true essence of two things, without discerning their difference, seems to me hard to... | |
 | Bruno Radtke - 1926 - 132 síður
...to it ; whereas by invention is really meant no more, (and so the word signifies) than discovery, or finding out ; or to explain it at large, a quick and...true essence of all the objects of our contemplation" (ibid.). So wird aus jener frei schaffenden Dichterphantasie, die Sidney „invention" nennt, ein Scharfsinn,... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1928 - 278 síður
...to it ; whereas by invention is really meant no more (and so the word signifies) than discovery, or finding out ; or to explain it at large, a quick and...sagacious penetration into the true essence of all the obje&s of our contemplation. This I think, can rarely exist without the concomitancy of judgment ;... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1983 - 1028 síður
...to it; whereas by Invention is really meant no more, (and so the Word signifies) than Discovery, or finding out; or to explain it at large, a quick and...discovered the true Essence of two Things, without discerning their Difference, seems to me hard to conceive; now this last is the undisputed Province... | |
 | Richard Freeborn - 1985 - 320 síður
...what Fielding called ' invention ' and 'judgment' - the capacity, that is, for 'finding out; or. . .a quick and sagacious penetration into the true essence of all the objects of our contemplation' and the ability to discern 'the true essence of two things'. In a word, realism; but a realism that... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1990 - 284 síður
...making things up. "By Invention is really meant no more, (and so the Word signifies) than Discovery, or finding out; or to explain it at large, a quick and...true Essence of all the Objects of our Contemplation" (491; bk. 9, ch. 1). The novelists ultimate claim to authority rests on his capacity to discern truth—"true... | |
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