To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an enquiry, as to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or real bitter. According to the disposition of the organs, the same object may be both sweet and bitter; and the proverb has justly determined... An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste - עמוד 16מאת Richard Payne Knight - 1808 - 476 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| David Hume - 1804 - 592 דפים
...those of others. To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an inquiry, as to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or real bitter. According...tastes. It is very natural, and even quite necessary, to extend this axiom to mental, as well as bodily taste ; and thus common sense, which is so often at... | |
| David Hume - 1809 - 868 דפים
...those of others. To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an inquiry, as to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or real bitter. According...tastes. It is very natural, and even quite necessary, to extend this axiom to mental, as well as bodily taste ; and thus common sense, which is so often at... | |
| Charles James - 1817 - 294 דפים
...the same object may be both b 5 " sweet " sweet and bitter, and the proverb has justly de" termined it to be fruitless to dispute concerning " tastes. It is very natural, and even quite neces" sary, to extend this axiom to mental as well as " bodily taste: and thus common sense, which... | |
| Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot - 1823 - 434 דפים
...beauty or the real deformity is as fruitless an inquiry, as to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or bitter, and the proverb has justly determined it to...tastes. It is very natural, and even quite necessary, to extend this axiom to mental as well as bodily taste." If beauty, according to this theory of Mr. Hume,... | |
| David Hume - 1825 - 562 דפים
...real deformity, y isjis fruitless anjnquiry...a&.to_pretend to ascertaia.the real sweel^m-reaLhitter. According to the disposition of^ the organs, the same...determined it to be fruitless to dispute .concerning pastes. It is very natural, and even ~<f 4~.y». quite necessary, to extend this axiom to mental, as... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 דפים
...those of others. To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an enquiry as to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or real bitter. According...to be fruitless to dispute concerning tastes. It is тегу natural, and even quite necessary, to extend this axiom to mental as well as bodily taste... | |
| David Hume - 1854 - 586 דפים
...those of others. To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an inquiry, as to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or real bitter. According...tastes. It is very natural, and even quite necessary, to extend this axiom to mental, as well as bodily taste ; and thus common sense, which is so often at... | |
| David Hume - 1889 - 530 דפים
...those of others. To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an enquiry, as to pretend to ascertain /.' the real sweet or real bitter. According...tastes. It is very natural, and even quite necessary, to extend this axiom to mental, as well as bodily taste; and thus common sense, which is so often at variance... | |
| Charles William Eliot - 1910 - 440 דפים
...those of others. To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an inquiry, as to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or real bitter. According...tastes. It is very natural, and even quite necessary, to extend this axiom to mental, as well as bodily taste; and thus common sense, which is so often at variance... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 דפים
...those of others. To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an inquiry as to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or real bitter. According...tastes. It is very natural, and even quite necessary, to extend this axiom to mental as well as bodily taste; and thus common sense, which is so often at variance... | |
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