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The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 302
by Samuel Johnson - 1816
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The Idler, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 366 pages
...is habit and cuftom ; cuftom makes, in a certain fenfe, white black, and black white; it is cuftom alone determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the ^Ethiopians, and they, for the fame reafon, prefer their own colour to . ours. I fuppofe no body will doubt, if one of their painters...
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The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...habit and cuftom ; cuftom makes, in a certain fenle, white black, and black white $ it is cufr torn alone determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the ^Ethiopians, and they, for the fame reafoo, prefer their own colour to ours. I fuppofe nobody will doubt, if one of their painters...
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The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...is habit and cuftom ; cuftom makes, in a certain fenfe, white black, and black white ; it is cuftom alone determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the ^Ethiopians, and they, for the fame reafon, prefer their own colour to ours. I fuppofe nobody will doubt, if one of their painters...
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Harrison's British Classicks: The Idler. Fitz Osbornes Letters. Shenstones ...

1787 - 528 pages
...is habit and cultora j cuftom makes, in a certain fenfe, white black, and black white; it is cultom alone determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the ./Ethiopians, and they, for the fame reafon, prefer their own colour to ours. I fuppofe nobody will doubt, if one of their painters...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 442 pages
...is habit and cuftom ; cuftom makes, in a certain fenfe, white black, and black white; it is cuftom alone determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the ^Ethiopians, and they, fo$ the fame reafon, prefer their own colour to ours. I fuppofe nobody will doubt, if one of their...
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ...: Containing His ..., Volume 2

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 452 pages
...not be subjected to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another, the most general, I believe, is habit...reason, prefer their own colour to ours. I suppose no body will doubt, if one of their Painters were to paint the Goddess of Beauty, but that he would...
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The works of sir Joshua Reynolds. To which is prefixed an account ..., Volume 2

sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another, the most genera], I believe, is habit and custom; custom makes, in a...reason, prefer their own colour to ours. I suppose no body will doubt, if one of their Painters were to paint the Goddess of Beauty, but that he would...
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Select British Classics, Volume 10

1803 - 222 pages
...not be subjected to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another, the most general, I believe, is habit...Ethiopians, and they, for the same reason, prefer then- own colour to ours. I suppose no body will doubt, if one of their painters was to paint the goddess...
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ; Late President of the Royal ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1809 - 442 pages
...not be (subjected to such narrow rules. Among the yarious reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another, the most general, I believe, is habit...it is custom alone determines our preference of the colour,of the Europeans to the Ethiopians, and they, for the same reason, prefer their own colour to...
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A letter to Uvedale Price, Esq., [by] H. Repton, A letter to H. Repton, Esq ...

Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 420 pages
...such' narrow rules. The most general reason of preference is custom, which, in a'certain $en$e,makeĀ» white black, and black white : it is custom alone,...for the same reason prefer their own colour to ours. This he illustrates in a very ingenious manner, by saying, that if one of their painters Avere to paint...
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