Elements of Criticism, Volume 2Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967 - Criticism |
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... taste and behaviour . The fulfome panegyrics be- ftowed upon the great and opulent , in epiftles dedicatory and other fuch compofitions , lead naturally to that thought . Did there prevail in the world , it will be faid , or did nature ...
... taste and behaviour . The fulfome panegyrics be- ftowed upon the great and opulent , in epiftles dedicatory and other fuch compofitions , lead naturally to that thought . Did there prevail in the world , it will be faid , or did nature ...
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... taste where there is naturally a preference of one thing before another ; it is certain , in the first place , that our faint and more delicate feelings are readily susceptible of a bias from custom ; and therefore that it is no proof ...
... taste where there is naturally a preference of one thing before another ; it is certain , in the first place , that our faint and more delicate feelings are readily susceptible of a bias from custom ; and therefore that it is no proof ...
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... taste . The foregoing reasoning , it is true , appears to me just : it is however too fubtile , to afford conviction in opposition to taste . Confidering this matter in a fuperficial view , one might be apt to imagine , that it must be ...
... taste . The foregoing reasoning , it is true , appears to me just : it is however too fubtile , to afford conviction in opposition to taste . Confidering this matter in a fuperficial view , one might be apt to imagine , that it must be ...
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