| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...believe, is habit and custom ; custom makes, in a certain sense, white black, and black white; itis 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 ours. I suppose nobody will doubt, if one of their painters... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 pages
...Europeans to the Ethiopians ; and they, for the same reason, prefer their own colour to ours. I 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, and woolly hair;... | |
| Horace Smith - 1825 - 372 pages
...the Grecian nose predominates, for he subsequently adds, in speaking of the Ethiopians, " I 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, and woolly hair... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1827 - 512 pages
...that custom makes, in a certain sense, white black, and black white. "It is custom alone, (says he,) determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the Ethiopians, and they, for the same reason, prefer their own colour to ours. I suppose no body will doubt, if one of their painters... | |
| 1828 - 500 pages
...the Grecian nose predominates, for he subsequently adds, in speaking of the Ethiopians, " I 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, aaij woolly hair... | |
| David Drummond - 1829 - 230 pages
...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 the Europeans to the " iEthiopeans, and they, for the same reason, prefer their own colour " to ours. I suppose no body... | |
| 1821 - 370 pages
...the Grecian nose predominates, tor he subsequently adds, in speaking of the ^Ethiopians, " I 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, and woolly hair... | |
| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...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 the Europeans to the Ethiopians, and they, for the same reason, prefer their own colour to ours. I suppose no body will doubt, if one of their Painters... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 514 pages
...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 the Europeans to the Ethiopians, and they, for the same reason, prefer their own colour ( to ours. I suppose no body will doubt, if one of their Painters... | |
| Alexander Walker - 1836 - 528 pages
...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 the Europeans to the Ethiopians, and they, for the same reason, prefer their own colour to ours. I suppose nobody will doubt, if one of their painters... | |
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