A Critical Dissertation on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Том 5Whittaker, 1822 |
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... pretend to determine in what beauty consists ? Of this truth Mr. Dugald Stuart has been so well con- vinced , that he concludes from it the impossibility 8 of discovering any common quality in beautiful objects . vi PREFACE .
... pretend to determine in what beauty consists ? Of this truth Mr. Dugald Stuart has been so well con- vinced , that he concludes from it the impossibility 8 of discovering any common quality in beautiful objects . vi PREFACE .
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... truth , and to assign the rea- sons which have led me to dissent from them : This , I think , is a duty which necessarily devolves on every writer who would redeem his subject from popular and philosophical error . Without it the public ...
... truth , and to assign the rea- sons which have led me to dissent from them : This , I think , is a duty which necessarily devolves on every writer who would redeem his subject from popular and philosophical error . Without it the public ...
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... truth . I am aware that he who attacks the opinions of other writers , even when he demonstrates them to be erroneous , is frequently supposed to do so through the affectation of superior knowledge , or at least through motives less ...
... truth . I am aware that he who attacks the opinions of other writers , even when he demonstrates them to be erroneous , is frequently supposed to do so through the affectation of superior knowledge , or at least through motives less ...
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... truth , and who wishes to see his own opinions disproved , if it be possible to disprove them . But if he will not excuse an error in himself , neither will he connive at it in another , and therefore he unmasks it wherever he detects ...
... truth , and who wishes to see his own opinions disproved , if it be possible to disprove them . But if he will not excuse an error in himself , neither will he connive at it in another , and therefore he unmasks it wherever he detects ...
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... truth and nature are equally concealed from his view ; and whatever motives induced him to become a writer , his memory is destined to glide into peaceful oblivion and undisturbed repose . He who has truth on his side , and ability to ...
... truth and nature are equally concealed from his view ; and whatever motives induced him to become a writer , his memory is destined to glide into peaceful oblivion and undisturbed repose . He who has truth on his side , and ability to ...
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