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... termed admiration . These terms are , no doubt , correlative , and imply each other , but it is essential to examine their relationship , and ascertain upon what it is based . We think and talk a great deal more about the first , that ...
... termed admiration . These terms are , no doubt , correlative , and imply each other , but it is essential to examine their relationship , and ascertain upon what it is based . We think and talk a great deal more about the first , that ...
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... termed , an objective rather than a subjective tendency . What , then , are these subjective elements of awe and approbation which attract our attention so little ? for it appears that the inquiry should commence with them and not with ...
... termed , an objective rather than a subjective tendency . What , then , are these subjective elements of awe and approbation which attract our attention so little ? for it appears that the inquiry should commence with them and not with ...
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... the emotion of admiration is capable of being called into existence by the presence of an object of beauty , in other words , by sensations which are not , and should not be termed , beautiful . To the solution 34 THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY .
... the emotion of admiration is capable of being called into existence by the presence of an object of beauty , in other words , by sensations which are not , and should not be termed , beautiful . To the solution 34 THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY .
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Avary W. Holmes-Forbes. should not be termed , beautiful . To the solution of this problem the remainder of the present chapter shall be devoted . The second great class of feelings , that called the emo- tions , does not differ from the ...
Avary W. Holmes-Forbes. should not be termed , beautiful . To the solution of this problem the remainder of the present chapter shall be devoted . The second great class of feelings , that called the emo- tions , does not differ from the ...
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... termed generally the indis- pensables of civilised life . Some of these articles may not , of course , be absolutely necessary to existence , but they are all in some measure essential to society in ( 76 ) CHAPTER IV -BEAUTY ATTACHES ...
... termed generally the indis- pensables of civilised life . Some of these articles may not , of course , be absolutely necessary to existence , but they are all in some measure essential to society in ( 76 ) CHAPTER IV -BEAUTY ATTACHES ...
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æsthetic analogies appear associations Author beauty birds called capable cause Chinese cloth College colour contempt countenance Crown 8vo Demy 8vo DICTIONARY disgust emotion of admiration English Essay F. W. Newman fact Falstaff Fcap feeling flowers George Henry Lewes German GRAMMAR human Illustrations India innate power intellect inutility inverse J. G. Fichte Joseph Edkins LANGUAGE less light LL.D look matter Max Müller mean mind moral motion nature never Notes object odour ornament ourselves Percy Greg persons phenomena physiognomy Plates pleasant poem poet poetic poetry Post 8vo Post free principle Professor Published by Trübner qualities Ralph T. H. Griffith recognise RELIGION retina Royal 8vo Sanskrit Second Edition sensations sewed shape Songs star sublime suggested power things thou thought tion Translated ugly unpleasant utility vibrations viii Vocabulary W. R. Greg words
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