 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 pages
...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 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 - 1846 - 528 pages
...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 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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 426 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... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 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... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 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... | |
 | Jeremy Black - 2007 - 314 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles A. Cramer - 2006 - 196 pages
...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 they, for the same reason, prefer their own colour to ours. . . . fl]t may be inferred [from this], that the works... | |
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I 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, and woolly hair ; and, it seems to me, he would act very unnaturally if he did not... 
