Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - Edinburgh review |
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... beauty be really a simple sensation , like some of those we have enumerated , or a compound or derivative feeling , the sources or elements of which may be investigated and ascertained . If it be the former , we have then only to refer ...
... beauty be really a simple sensation , like some of those we have enumerated , or a compound or derivative feeling , the sources or elements of which may be investigated and ascertained . If it be the former , we have then only to refer ...
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... Beauty , and the circumstances under which these are presented to us . If we ask one of the latter ( and larger ) class , what beauty is ? we shall most probably be answered , that it is what makes things pleasant to look at ; and if we ...
... Beauty , and the circumstances under which these are presented to us . If we ask one of the latter ( and larger ) class , what beauty is ? we shall most probably be answered , that it is what makes things pleasant to look at ; and if we ...
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... beauty be really a simple sensation , like some of those we have enumerated , or a compound or derivative feel- ing , the sources or elements of which may be investi- gated and ascertained . If it be the former , we have then only to ...
... beauty be really a simple sensation , like some of those we have enumerated , or a compound or derivative feel- ing , the sources or elements of which may be investi- gated and ascertained . If it be the former , we have then only to ...
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... beauty being a simple sensation , or the object of a separate and peculiar faculty . The first , and perhaps the most considerable , is the want of agreement as to the presence and existence of beauty in particular objects , among men ...
... beauty being a simple sensation , or the object of a separate and peculiar faculty . The first , and perhaps the most considerable , is the want of agreement as to the presence and existence of beauty in particular objects , among men ...
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Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey. 6 NATURE OF BEAUTY . rise to the same diversity of sensation . The little shop- keeper sees a beauty in his roadside box , and in the staring tile roof , wooden lions , and clipped boxwood , which strike ...
Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey. 6 NATURE OF BEAUTY . rise to the same diversity of sensation . The little shop- keeper sees a beauty in his roadside box , and in the staring tile roof , wooden lions , and clipped boxwood , which strike ...
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