All 3 Uses of
ingenious
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
- "As for the antiquity either of their government or of ours," said he, "you cannot pass a true judgment of it unless you had read their histories; for, if they are to be believed, they had towns among them before these parts were so much as inhabited; and as for those discoveries that have been either hit on by chance or made by ingenious men, these might have happened there as well as here.†
- I do not deny but we are more ingenious than they are, but they exceed us much in industry and application.†
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- The minds of the Utopians, when fenced with a love for learning, are very ingenious in discovering all such arts as are necessary to carry it to perfection.†
Definition:
showing cleverness and originality