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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1

David Hume - 1804 - 592 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an undertaking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...conception, the same exactness of distinction, the same-vivacity of apprehension, are essential to the operations of true taste, and are its infallible...
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Essays, moral, political, and literary

David Hume - 1809 - 868 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate ian undertaking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom or never happens, that a man of sense, who has experience in any art, cannot judge of its...
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Essays, moral, political, and literary

David Hume - 1817 - 564 pages
...to succeed in so delicate an under* taking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of fa* culties which contributes to the improvement of reason, the...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom or never happens, that a man of sense, who has experience in any art, cannot judge of its...
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Essays, moral, political, and literary

David Hume - 1825 - 572 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an underT taking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom or never happens, that a man of sense, who has experience in any art, cannot judge of its...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1

David Hume - 1825 - 562 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an undertaking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...same clearness of conception, the same exactness of dis- Ji thief ion. the same vivacity of apprehension, are essential to the operations of true taste,...
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Beauty; Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in ...

Alexander Walker - 1836 - 528 pages
...possession of a brain capable of vigorous thought, sound judgment, and exquisite taste, Hume observes that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...apprehension, are essential to the operations of true taste. Here again, those who take these true, but vague and inconclusive views, should, I think, have seen...
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Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman

Alexander Walker - 1840 - 434 pages
...possession of a brain capable of vigorous thought, sound judgment, and exquisite taste, Hume observes that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...apprehension, are essential to the operations of true taste. Here, again, those who take these true, but vague and inconclusive views, should, I think, have seen...
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Philosophical Works, Volume 3

David Hume - 1854 - 586 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an undertaking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom or never happens, that a man of sense, who has experience in any art, cannot judge of its...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an undertaking; not to mention that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom or never happens that a man of sense who has experience in any art can not judge of its beauty;...
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Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, Volume 1

David Hume - 1889 - 530 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an undertaking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom, or never happens, that a man of sense, who has experience in any art, cannot judge of its...
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