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" To instance in a particular part of a feature ; the line that forms the ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight; this, then, is the central form, which is oftener found than either concave, convex, or any other irregular form that shall be... "
Harrison's British Classicks: The Idler. Fitz Osbornes Letters. Shenstones ... - Page 119
1787
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 1-2

1844 - 878 pages
...Essay on Beauty, that ' the line that forms the ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight ; this, then, is the central form which is oftener found than either the concave, convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed.' Opinions are, however, occasionally...
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The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds,: ... To which is ..., Volume 2

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 pages
...particular part of a feature ; the line that forms a ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight; this then is the central form, which is oftener found...concave, convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are then more accustomed to beauty that deformity, we may conclude that to...
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History of the Philosophy of Mind: Embracing the Opinions of All ..., Volume 3

Robert Blakey - 1848 - 584 pages
...particular part of a feature, the line that forms the ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight. This, then, is the central form which is oftener found...concave, convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are then more accustomed to beauty than to deformity, we may conclude that...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays. 1855

Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 pages
...particular part of a feature, the line that forms the ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight. This, then, is the central form, which is oftener...concave, convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are then more accustomed to beauty than to deformity, we may conclude that...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 120

1866 - 586 pages
...particular part of a feature, the line that forms the ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight ; this, then, is the central form, which is oftener...concave, convex< or any other irregular form that shall be proposed.' General nature, therefore, or beauty, consisted in the medium between excess and...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 120

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1866 - 750 pages
...particular part of a feature, the line that forms the ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight ; this, then, is the central form, which is oftener...concave, convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed.' General nature, therefore, or beauty, consisted in the medium between excess and...
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...particular part of a feature : the line that forms the ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight ; this then is the central form, which is oftener found...concave, convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are then more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to...
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - 1885 - 426 pages
...particular part of a feature : the line that forms the ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight ; this then is the central form, which is oftener found...concave, convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are then more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to...
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The Discourses

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pages
...particular part of a feature ; the line that forms a ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight ; this, then, is the central form, which is oftener...concave, convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As wo are then more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to...
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The Discourses

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 pages
...particular part of a feature ; the line that forms a ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight ; this, then, is the central form, which is oftener...concave, convex, or any other irregular form that shall be proposed. As we are then more accustomed to beauty than deformity, we may conclude that to...
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