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... beauty , or excellency . - It is not all beauty , that is called virtue ; for instance , not the beauty of a build- ing , of a flower , or of the rainbow : but some beauty belonging to Beings that have perception and will . - It is not ...
... beauty , or excellency . - It is not all beauty , that is called virtue ; for instance , not the beauty of a build- ing , of a flower , or of the rainbow : but some beauty belonging to Beings that have perception and will . - It is not ...
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... beauty . And benevolence or goodness in the Divine Being is generally supposed , not only to be prior to the beauty of many of its objects , but to their existence : so as to be the ground both of their existence and their beauty ...
... beauty . And benevolence or goodness in the Divine Being is generally supposed , not only to be prior to the beauty of many of its objects , but to their existence : so as to be the ground both of their existence and their beauty ...
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... beauty . The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms , -the totality of na- ture ; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty “ il più nell ' uno . " Nothing is quite beautiful alone ; nothing but is beautiful in ...
... beauty . The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms , -the totality of na- ture ; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty “ il più nell ' uno . " Nothing is quite beautiful alone ; nothing but is beautiful in ...
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