Outlines of Analogical Philosophy:: Being a Primary View of the Principles, Relations and Purposes of Nature, Science, and Art, Volume 2Charles Tilt, Fleet Street., 1839 |
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... beauty with regard to sense of which more hereafter , when we come to treat of Beauty as an end . 944. Taste is , therefore , an exquisite sensibility , regulated by judgment ; or , finally , it is in all cases a sense , or sentiment of ...
... beauty with regard to sense of which more hereafter , when we come to treat of Beauty as an end . 944. Taste is , therefore , an exquisite sensibility , regulated by judgment ; or , finally , it is in all cases a sense , or sentiment of ...
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... beauty before it is extricated by the art and skill of the statuary . 984. From the simplest concurrence or pro- gress of a point in space springs longitude , or length ; from its duple procession arises latitude , or breadth ; and by ...
... beauty before it is extricated by the art and skill of the statuary . 984. From the simplest concurrence or pro- gress of a point in space springs longitude , or length ; from its duple procession arises latitude , or breadth ; and by ...
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... beauty , and governed by the Circle as its type , of which we might adduce many instances . Thus , in the Propylæa at Athens , the length of its basement is the diameter of a circle , of which the columns are radii , and the three ...
... beauty , and governed by the Circle as its type , of which we might adduce many instances . Thus , in the Propylæa at Athens , the length of its basement is the diameter of a circle , of which the columns are radii , and the three ...
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... beauty , simplicity , and harmony of the most generally admired structures depend . In proportion , also , as we acquire rules and principles of our own , we shall be released from the servile necessity of continuing mere imitators of ...
... beauty , simplicity , and harmony of the most generally admired structures depend . In proportion , also , as we acquire rules and principles of our own , we shall be released from the servile necessity of continuing mere imitators of ...
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... Beauty to other arts ; and , thirdly , on the intellectual extreme , we have Statuary , the highest of the plastic arts , producing Models of Expression in animate beings - brutal , human , and Divine - and adding to natural and ...
... Beauty to other arts ; and , thirdly , on the intellectual extreme , we have Statuary , the highest of the plastic arts , producing Models of Expression in animate beings - brutal , human , and Divine - and adding to natural and ...
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Page 426 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face; That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Page 282 - Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Page 370 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are? Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Page 364 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 321 - God as inadequately and variously understood : — hence the innumerable objects of adoration, — the various denominations under which the Deity has been worshipped in different ages and countries, — and the variety of religious opinions. §. 69. The highest and most comprehensive of all conceptions to which the mind of man can be elevated by the powers of understanding and philosophy, is the totality of things internal and external, — that in which all is united, or wherein all things exist,...
Page 361 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Page 328 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 471 - ... universal system : That it is not strange that we should not be able to discover perfection and order in every instance, because, in an infinity of things mutually relative, a mind which sees not infinitely, can see nothing fully. This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the Stoics, but more amply and particularly by the later Platonists, and by Antoninus and Simplicius.
Page 369 - I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in man : and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Page 454 - Let there be light!' said God, and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep, and from her native east To journey through the airy gloom began, Sphered in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun Was not; she in a cloudy tabernacle Sojourned the while.