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Benjamin West   /bˈɛndʒəmən wɛst/   Listen
Benjamin West

noun
1.
English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820).  Synonym: West.






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"Benjamin West" Quotes from Famous Books



... becoming great. He was to be a general, hurling back the foes of his country; he was to be the nation's master in literature; a successful drawing on his slate had filled him with ambition, confidently entertained, of becoming a Rubens—and the story of Benjamin West in his school reader fanned this spark to a flame; science, too, had at times been his chosen field; and when he had built a mousetrap which actually caught mice, he saw himself a millionaire inventor. As for ...
— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick

... and labor to his natural gift. So the man born with a talent for teaching needs to cultivate the talent by patient study and practice, before he can become a thoroughly accomplished teacher. No man probably ever showed greater native aptitude for anything, than did Benjamin West for painting. Yet what long years of toil and study it took for him to become a really great painter? In teaching, as in every other profession, while men doubtless differ as to their original qualifications and aptitudes, yet the differences are not so great as they are often supposed to be, ...
— In the School-Room - Chapters in the Philosophy of Education • John S. Hart



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