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Essays, moral, political, and literary - Page 238
by David Hume - 1817
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Four Dissertations: I. The Natural History of Religion. II. Of the Passions ...

David Hume - 1757 - 260 pages
...whereever ihey are to be found, is the true ftandard of tafte and beauty. „ ..-! ,... BUT where are fuch critics to be found ? By what marks are they to be known ? HO\Y diflinguifh them from pretenders ? Thefe queftions are embarraffing ; and feem $of throw us...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. ...

David Hume - 1768 - 606 pages
...of fuch, wherever they are to be found, is the true ftandard of tafte and beauty. But where are fuch critics to be found ? By what marks are they to be known ? How diftinguifh them from pretenders ? Thefe queftions are embarrafling ; and feem to throw us back •into...
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Beauty; Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in ...

Alexander Walker - 1836 - 528 pages
...prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character ; and the joint verdict of such, whereever they are to be found, is the true standard of taste and beauty." Taking the principal ideas above, Burke also concludes, " On the whole it appears to me, that what...
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Portfolio of an Artist

Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 pages
...by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character : and the joint verdict of such, wherever they are to...be found, is the true standard of taste and beauty. Hume. MEDIUM OF VISION. THE difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All...
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Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman

Alexander Walker - 1840 - 434 pages
...by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character ; and the joint verdict of such, wherever they are to...found, is the true standard of taste and beauty." Taking the principal ideas above, Burke also concludes : " On the whole it appears to me, that what...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume, Volume 3

David Hume - 1854 - 590 pages
...by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character ; and the joint verdict of such, wherever they are to...from which, during the course of this Essay, we have endeavored to extricate ourselves. But if we consider the matter aright, these are questions of fact,...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume: Including All the Essays ..., Volume 3

David Hume - 1854 - 584 pages
...by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character ; and the joint verdict of such, wherever they are to...uncertainty from which, during the course of this Essay, \ve have endeavored to extricate ourselves. But if we consider the matter aright, these are questions...
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Philosophical Works, Volume 3

David Hume - 1854 - 586 pages
...by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character ; and the joint verdict of such, wherever they are to...beauty. But where are such critics to be found ? By what VOL. in. 34 marks are they to be known ? How distinguish them from pretenders ? These questions are...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character; and the joint verdict of such, wherever they are to...be found, is the true standard of taste and beauty. 3. CHARACTER OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. (FROM THE " HlSTOBT OF ENGLAND," PUBLISHED IN 1754.) THBBB are few...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character ; and the joint verdict of such, wherever they are to...from which, during the course of this essay, we have endeavored to extricate ourselves. dowed with good sense and a delicate imagination, free from prejudice,...
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