 ... 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 329by Samuel Johnson - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 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...change their meanings, yes would then deny, and no v\ould affirm. Whoever undertakes to proceed further in this argument, and endeavours to fix a general... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...I have no doubt, but that if we were more ufed to deformity than beauty, deformily would then lofe the idea now annexed to it, and take that of beauty ; as if the whole world fliould agree that yes and no fliould change their meanings, yes would then deny, and no would affirm.... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 420 pages
...the cause of our liking it ; and that if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity would lose the idea now annexed to it, and take that of beauty. If by being used to deformity,* he meant a supposed case, that the forms of visible objects on this... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...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; yes would "then deny, and no would affirm."* As this theory has plainly taken its rise from... | |
 | 1792 - 620 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 yts and no fhould change their meanings; yes would then deny, and no would affirm.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...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 change their meanings, yes would then deny, and TIG would affirm. Whoever undertakes to proceed further in thia argument, and endeavours to fix a general... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pages
...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 ; yes would then deny, and " no would affirm." * ' As this theory has plainly taken its rise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...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...argument, and endeavours to fix a general criterion of beau. ty respecting different species, or to shew why one species is more beautiful than another, it... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 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 ; yes would then deny, and no would affirm. Whoever undertakes to proceed further in this argument,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 446 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; yes would then deny, and no would affirm. Whoever undertakes to proceed further in this argument,... | |
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