 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 páginas
...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 - 1808 - 410 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1823 - 856 páginas
...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. The same thing may be said of colour as of form : it is custom alone which determines our preference... | |
 | 1824 - 1008 páginas
...now annexed to it, and take that of Beauty ; — just as we approve Beauty. and admire fashions in dress, for no other reason than that we are used to them." Now, not to dwell upon the very startling conclusion to which these principles must lead, viz. that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 páginas
...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 arc used to them ; so that though habit and custom cannot be said to be the cause of beauty, it is... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 páginas
...that " we approve and admire Beauty because we are more accustomed to it than Deformity; as we approve and admire customs and fashions 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 páginas
...that " we approve and admire Beauty because we are more accustomed to it than Deformity; as we approve and admire customs and fashions 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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 páginas
...that is now annexed to it, ;md take that of beauty; — just as we approve. :ind admire fashions in dress, for no other reason than that we are used to them." Now, not to dwell upon the very startling j conclusion to which these principles must lead, viz. that... | |
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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... 
