| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...deformity, we may conclude that to be the rea? ' son why we approve and admire it, as we ap» jirove and admire customs and fashions of dress, for no other...beauty, it is certainly! the cause of our liking it. Idler, vol. t, p. 167. , la th-e works of nature, if we compare one species with another, all are equally... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 410 pages
...convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are then more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why...beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking it; ahd I have no doubt but that, if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity would then lose... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 420 pages
...or any irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are, therefore, more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why we approve and admire it. He then observes, that whoever pretends to defend the preference he gives to one form rather than to... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 420 pages
...or any' irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are, therefore, more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why we approve and admire it. He then observes, that whoever pretends' to defend the- preference he gives to one form rather than... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...any other ir" regular form that shall be proposed. As we are then " more accustomed to beauty than to deformity, we may " conclude that to be the reason why we approve and ad " mire it, as we approve and admire customs and fashions " of dress for no other reason than that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are then more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why we approve and admire it, as we approve andadmire customs and fashions of dress for no other reason than that we are used to them, so that... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...cause we are more accustomed to it than Defor" mity ; as we approve and admire customs and fa" shions of dress, for no other reason than that " we are used to them," is manifestly an imperfect solution of the difficulty. Even in the article of dress, it is not custom... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are then more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why...the cause of our liking it ; and I have no doubt but thaf, if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity would then lose the idea now annexed... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are then more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why we approve and admire it, at we approve and admire customs and fashions of dress for no other reason than that we are used to... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 856 pages
...or any ot/ie r irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are then more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why we approve and admire it, just as we approve and admire fashions of dress for no other reason than that we are used to them.... | |
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