 ... 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 our...  The British Essayists;: Idler - Page 287by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson Callender - 1782 - 78 pages
...have no doubt, but that, if we were more ufed to deformity than ' beauty, deformity would then lofe the idea now annexed to ' it, and take that of beauty ; as if the whole world fiiould a' gree that jet and no fhould change their meanings, yis would ' then deny, and no would affirm.'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...and I have no doubt but that if we were more ufed to deformity than beauty, deformity would then lofe the idea now annexed to it, and take that of beauty ; as if the whole world fhould agree, that yes and no fhould Change their meanings ; yes would then deny, and no would affirm.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...and I have no doubt but that if we were more ufed to deformity than beauty, deformity would then lofe the idea now annexed to it, and take that of beauty -, as if the whole world fhould agree, that yes and -no ftiould change their meanings ; yes would then deny, and no would affirm.... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...I have no doubt, but that if we were more ufed to deformity than beauty, deformity would then lofe the idea now annexed to it, and take that of beauty ; as if the whole world fhould agree that yei and no fhould change their meanings, yet would then deny, and no would affirm.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...and custom cannot be said 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...should agree, that yes and no should change their meaning;^ would then deny, and«o would affirm. Whoever undertakes to proceed further in this argument,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...and custom cannot be said 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...should agree, that yes and no should change their meaning; jw would then deny, and/zo would affirm. Whoever undertakes to proceed further in this argument,... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...and custom cannot be said 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...it, and take that of beauty; as if the whole world agree, that yes and no should change their meanings ; yes would then deny, and no would affirm. Whoever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...and custom cannot be said 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...change their meanings, yes would then deny, and no v\ould affirm. Whoever undertakes to proceed further in this argument, and endeavours to fix a general... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...I have no doubt, but that if we were more ufed to deformity than beauty, deformily would then lofe the idea now annexed to it, and take that of beauty ; as if the whole world fliould agree that yes and no fliould change their meanings, yes would then deny, and no would affirm.... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 420 pages
...remarks, that custom, though not the cause of beauty, is certainly the cause of our liking it ; and that if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity would lose the idea now annexed to it, and take that of beauty. If by being used to deformity,* he meant... | |
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