The Science of Beauty: An Analytical Inquiry Into the Laws of ÆstheticsTrübner & Company, 1881 - 200 pages |
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... nature is the difficulty we have in explaining our experiences . We all , in a greater or less degree , experience admiration for beauty and awe for sublimity ; and we know that these feelings - these emotions of awe and sublimity - are ...
... nature is the difficulty we have in explaining our experiences . We all , in a greater or less degree , experience admiration for beauty and awe for sublimity ; and we know that these feelings - these emotions of awe and sublimity - are ...
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... nature . The science of æsthetics - the causes or conditions of beauty and sublimity - seems to be still unsettled . Plato and Leibnitz , Hutcheson and Hogarth , Burke and Rey- nolds , Diderot and Alison have attacked the subject ...
... nature . The science of æsthetics - the causes or conditions of beauty and sublimity - seems to be still unsettled . Plato and Leibnitz , Hutcheson and Hogarth , Burke and Rey- nolds , Diderot and Alison have attacked the subject ...
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... nature of beauty , but not till then . The same reasoning that applied to colour and shape , applies to motion . By the fundamental law of metaphysics we are incapable of knowing intuitively any object , or any quality of an object ...
... nature of beauty , but not till then . The same reasoning that applied to colour and shape , applies to motion . By the fundamental law of metaphysics we are incapable of knowing intuitively any object , or any quality of an object ...
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... nature necessitated to make it , seem so ; and , secondly , that shape and motion are like- wise sensations in ourselves , and so far as they appear to be a quality or condition of objects , it is we that make them , and are ...
... nature necessitated to make it , seem so ; and , secondly , that shape and motion are like- wise sensations in ourselves , and so far as they appear to be a quality or condition of objects , it is we that make them , and are ...
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... nature of the object , this consciousness of ignorance causes curiosity , and curiosity , if it be not appeased , breeds unhappiness . In this state of things , therefore , you have little inclination to take pleasure in the colours you ...
... nature of the object , this consciousness of ignorance causes curiosity , and curiosity , if it be not appeased , breeds unhappiness . In this state of things , therefore , you have little inclination to take pleasure in the colours you ...
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