Elements of Criticism: In Three Volumes. ...A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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... taste of every individual . IT is rare to find one born with fuch delicacy of feeling , as not to need inftruc- tion it is equally rare to find one fo low in feeling , as not to be capable of inftruc- tion . And yet , to refine our ...
... taste of every individual . IT is rare to find one born with fuch delicacy of feeling , as not to need inftruc- tion it is equally rare to find one fo low in feeling , as not to be capable of inftruc- tion . And yet , to refine our ...
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... taste in the fine arts goes hand in hand with the moral fenfe , to which indeed it is nearly allied . Both of them difcover what is right and what is wrong . Fafhion , temper , and education , have an influence upon both , to vitiate ...
... taste in the fine arts goes hand in hand with the moral fenfe , to which indeed it is nearly allied . Both of them difcover what is right and what is wrong . Fafhion , temper , and education , have an influence upon both , to vitiate ...
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... taste , and for reasoning upon it . Where it is conformable to principles , we can pronounce with certainty , that it is correct ; otherwife , that it is incorrect , and perhaps whim fical . Thus the fine arts , like morals , become a ...
... taste , and for reasoning upon it . Where it is conformable to principles , we can pronounce with certainty , that it is correct ; otherwife , that it is incorrect , and perhaps whim fical . Thus the fine arts , like morals , become a ...
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... taste in the fine arts , by fweetening and harmonizing the temper , is a ftrong antidote to the turbulence of paffion and violence of purfuit . Elegance of tafte procures to a man fo much enjoyment at home , or easily within reach ...
... taste in the fine arts , by fweetening and harmonizing the temper , is a ftrong antidote to the turbulence of paffion and violence of purfuit . Elegance of tafte procures to a man fo much enjoyment at home , or easily within reach ...
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... taste tends not lefs to invigorate the focial affections , than to moderate thofe that are selfish . To be convinced of this tendency , we need only reflect , that deli- cacy of taste neceffarily heightens our fenfibility of pain and ...
... taste tends not lefs to invigorate the focial affections , than to moderate thofe that are selfish . To be convinced of this tendency , we need only reflect , that deli- cacy of taste neceffarily heightens our fenfibility of pain and ...
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