Excerpt from Sir Joshua Reynolds<br><br>Joshua must have Obtained at his father's grammar school a fair, if not a very elaborate, training in the classics, seeing that both his Discourses and his conversation con tain examples of the then obligatory Latin quotations, SO well understood and applied, that they could not always have been suggested by others. Such knowledge in that direction as he possessed can scarcely have been carried much further by actual study during his practically uninterrupted career as a painter. Allan Cunningham infers that the education of the future painter must have been neglected by his father, but there seems no reason for accepting this gratuitous conjecture, save the very insufficient one that some few orthographical and grammatical faults have been detected in the letters and papers of his maturity.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.