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" ... 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... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 329
by Samuel Johnson - 1820
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The Idler, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 366 pages
...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...and endeavours to fix a general criterion of beauty refpecting different fpecies, or to fhew why one fpecies is more beautiful than another, it will be...
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Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Works

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.'...
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Harrison's British Classicks: The Idler. Fitz Osbornes Letters. Shenstones ...

1787 - 528 pages
...agree, that yes and га flmuld change their meanings; yes would then deny, and на would alrinn. Whoever undertakes to proceed further in this argument,...and endeavours to fix a general criterion of beauty refpeiting diilerent fpecies, or to flicw whf one Ipecirs is more beautiful than another, it will be...
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The Idler

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....
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The Idler

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....
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 13, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 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....
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ...: Containing His ..., Volume 2

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 452 pages
...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 than beauty, 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,...
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The works of sir Joshua Reynolds. To which is prefixed an account ..., Volume 2

sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...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 than beauty, 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,...
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Select British Classics, Volume 10

1803 - 222 pages
...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 than beauty, 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...
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ; Late President of the Royal ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1809 - 442 pages
...their meaning ; yes would then deny, and UQ would affirm. • • i. , ••••... .. • .• . Whoever undertakes to proceed further in this argument,...Criterion of beauty respecting different species, or to show why one species is more beautiful than another, it will be required from him first to prove that...
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