 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 pages
...last that the great Mother of Nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another,...suppose nobody will doubt, if one of their painters were to paint the goddess of beauty, but that he would represent her black, with thick lips, flat nose,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...last that the great Mother of Nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another,...suppose nobody will doubt, if one of their painters were to paint the goddess of beauty, but that he would represent her black, with thick lips, flat nose,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823
...last that the great Mother of Nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another,...suppose nobody will doubt, if one of their painters were to paint the goddess of beauty, but that he would represent her black, with thick lips, flat nose,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 688 pages
...last that the great Mother of Nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another,...suppose nobody will doubt, if one of their painters were to paint the goddess of beauty, but that he would represent her black, with thick lips, flat nose,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...last that the great Mother of Nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another,...suppose nobody will doubt, if one of -their painters were to paint the goddess of beauty, but that he would represent her black, with thick lips, flat nose,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 324 pages
...last that the great mother of nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another,...suppose nobody will doubt, if one of their painters were to, paint the Goddess of Beauty, but that he would represent her black, with thick lips, flat... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 544 pages
...last that the great Mother of Nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another,...white black, and black white ; it is custom alone determinesour preference of the colour of the Europeans to the ^Ethiopians; and they, for the same... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 pages
...to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another, thf most general, I believe, is habit and custom ; custom...suppose nobody will doubt if one of their painters was to paint the Goddess of Beauty, but that he would represent her black, with thick lips, flat nose,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 pages
...last, that the great Mother of Nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another,...makes, in a certain sense, white black, and black wbite ; it is custom alone determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the ^Ethiopians... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...last, that the great Mother of Nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules. Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another,...general, I believe, is habit and custom ; custom makes, iu a certain sense, white black, and black white ; it is custom alone determines our preference of... | |
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Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another, the most general, I believe, is habit and custom : custom makes, in a certain sense, white black, and black white ; it is custom alone determines our preference of the colour of... 
