Other factories, his contemporaries, were adopting the same principles, and those who think Wedgwood unoriginal or uninventive are quite willing to credit him with all the inventiveness and originality necessary to overturn the old system.
The four examples just given of literally circumventing an uninventive enemy illustrate in the simplest form the influence of invention on military history.
By inventing methods and devising schemes and improvising plans that an uninventive man would not have thought of.
Later, when the hostile forces met on the low plain of Marathon, Miltiades rejected the obvious plan that anuninventive mind would have adopted.
It is worth while to turn back to the description of the uninventive painter at work on a tree (Vol.
These figures I have committed to tablets, which I am prepared to give to your mercenary and slow-witted father in return for your incomparable hand, a share of the profits, and the dismissal of the uninventive and morally threadbare Li Ting.