 | Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 366 pages
...form towards which Nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different...over one central point ; and as they all crofs the center, tho' only one paffes thro' any other point, fo it will be found that perfect beauty is oftener... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center; or it maybe compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions...over one central point ; and as they all crofs the center, though only one pafles through any other point, fo it will be found that perfect beauty is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center; or it may be compared to pendururns vibrating in different directions over one central point ; and as they all crofs the center, though only one paflfes through any other point, fo it will be found that perfect beauty is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 pages
...felects, as the painter does, the moft beautiful, that is, the moft general form of nature. Every fpecies of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may...and as they all crofs the centre, though only one pafles through any other point, fo it will be found that perfect beauty is oftener produced by nature... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 452 pages
...most general form of nature. Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which...directions over one central point : and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes, through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...most general form of nature. Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which...directions over one central point : and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes. through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
 | Ebenezer Sibly - 1802 - 420 pages
...faid to have a fixed or determinate form, to which, as to a centre, nature is continually inclining. Or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different...and as they all crofs the centre, though only one pafles through any other point, fo it will be found that perfect beauty is oftener produced by nature... | |
 | 1803 - 222 pages
...general form of nature. . Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form towards which...directions over one central point ; and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...most general form of nature. Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form towards which...directions over one central point, and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes .through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pages
...inclining. Or it may H h be nie '(liier. Love, be compared to pendulums vibrating in different di» renions over one central point ; and as they all crofs the centre, though only one paffes through any oilier point ; fo it will be found that perfecl beauty is oftener produced by nature than deformity... | |
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... the centre ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point ; and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point... 
