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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... "
Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 66
1823
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Culture in Eighteenth-Century England: A Subject for Taste

Jeremy Black - 2007 - 314 pages
...seen, for example, in Joshua Reynolds's essay on beauty in the 10 November 1759 issue of the the Idler. It is custom alone determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the Aethiopians, and they, for the same reason, prefer their own colour to ours. I suppose no body will...
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A Subject for Taste: Culture in Eighteenth-century England

Jeremy Black - 2005 - 320 pages
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Re-membering the Black Atlantic: On the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory

Lars Eckstein - 2006 - 316 pages
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Abstraction and the Classical Ideal, 1760-1920

Charles A. Cramer - 2006 - 196 pages
...custom in his 1759 letters to The Idler: Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of [nature's] works to another, the most general, I believe, is habit and custom. . . . [Clustom alone determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the Ethiopians, and...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 2006 - 540 pages
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The Oxford Companion to Black British History

David Dabydeen, John Gilmore, Cecily Jones - 2007 - 600 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 2006 - 496 pages
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The British Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies, Volumes 5-7

1982 - 988 pages
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