An Essay on Genius
Title | An Essay on Genius PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Gerard |
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Pages | 464 |
Release | 1774 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
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"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).
An Essay on Genius
Title | An Essay on Genius PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Gerard |
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Pages | 434 |
Release | 1774 |
Genre | Genius |
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An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer
Title | An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Wood |
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Pages | 380 |
Release | 1775 |
Genre | Epic poetry, Greek |
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An Essay on Genius. By Alexander Gerard, D.D. ...
Title | An Essay on Genius. By Alexander Gerard, D.D. ... PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Gerard |
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Pages | 434 |
Release | 1774 |
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An Essay on Genius
Title | An Essay on Genius PDF eBook |
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An essay on original genius; and its various modes of exertion in philosophy and the fine arts, particularly in poetry ... The second edition
Title | An essay on original genius; and its various modes of exertion in philosophy and the fine arts, particularly in poetry ... The second edition PDF eBook |
Author | William Duff |
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Pages | 332 |
Release | 1767 |
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An Essay on Genius (Classic Reprint)
Title | An Essay on Genius (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Gerard |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2017-07-16 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780282294090 |
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