 | 1856 - 430 pages
...idea that is now annexed to it, and take that of beauty — just as we approve and admire fashions in dress, for no other reason than that we are used to them." To this Lord Jeffrey finds answer, in that the theory is constructed on the narrow view of the mind's... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 586 pages
...their prevalence in our section of the world. 'As we are more accustomed,' he says, ' to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why...it, as we approve and admire customs and fashions for no other reason than that we are used to them.' He enforces his view by the argument that all the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1866 - 750 pages
...their prevalence in our section of the world. ' As we are more accustomed,' he says, ' to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why...it, as we approve and admire customs and fashions for no other reason than that we are used to them.' He enforces his view by the argument that all the... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 330 pages
...convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As wo are then more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why...and fashions of dress for no other reason than that wo an used to them ; so that though habit and custom cannot be said to be the cause of beauty, it is... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1905 - 564 pages
...form as beauty is due to nothing other than use. " As we are, then, more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why...than that we are used to them ; so that though habit or custom cannot be said to be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking it." In... | |
 | Paul Youngquist - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 268 pages
...deformity is a function of familiarity, even prejudice: "As we are then more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to be the reason why...other reason than that we are used to them; so that habit and custom cannot be said to be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking... | |
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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 and admire customs and fashions of dress for no other reason than that we are used to them... 
