 ... 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 ; so that, though habit and custom cannot be said to be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Pagina 329di Samuel Johnson - 1820Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pagine
...be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking it ; and I have no doubt but that, if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity...criterion of beauty respecting different species, or to show why one species is more beautiful than another, it will be required from him first to prove that... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 378 pagine
...to be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking it; and I have no doubt but that, if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity...and no would affirm. ' Whoever undertakes to proceed farther in this argument, and endeavours to fix a general criterion of beauty respecting different... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 pagine
...be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking it ; and I have no doubt but that, if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity...and no would affirm. ' Whoever undertakes to proceed farther in this argument, and endeavours to fix a general criterion of beauty respecting different... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pagine
...be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking it ; and I have no doubt but that, if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity...meanings, yes would then deny, and no would affirm. i Whoever undertakes to proceed further in this argument, and endeavours to fix a general criterion... | |
 | 1823 - 886 pagine
...be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking it : and I have no doubt, but that if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity...beauty ; as if the •whole world should agree that t/es and un should change their meanings, yes would then deny, and no would affirm. " Whoever undertakes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 pagine
...be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking it ; and I have no doubt but that, if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity...agree that yes and no should change their meanings, yr.ft would then deny, and no would affirm. Whoever undertakes to proceed further in this argument,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 324 pagine
...to be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking it: and I have no doubt but that if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity...world should agree that yes and no should change their •meaning; yen would then deny, and no would affirm. Whoever undertakes to proceed further in this... | |
 | 1824 - 1008 pagine
...extent, and is even carried so far by this great artist, that he does not scruple to conclude, " That if we were more used to deformity than Beauty, deformity would then lose the idea that is now annexed to it, and take that of Beauty ; — just as we approve Beauty. and admire fashions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pagine
...be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking it ; and I have no doubt but that, if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity...criterion of beauty respecting different species, or to show why one species is more beautiful than another, it will be required from him first to prove that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 pagine
...be the cause of beauty, it is certainly the cause of our liking it ; and I have no doubt but that, if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity...criterion of beauty respecting different species, or to show why one species is more beautiful than. another, it will be required from him first to prove that... | |
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