| Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 pages
...this theory, I am apprehensive that experience was not sufficiently consulted. For, on that principle, the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage...digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful. The great bag hanging to the bill of a pelican, a thing highly useful to this animal, would be likewise... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1997 - 614 pages
...apprehensive that experience was not sufficiently consulted. For on that principle, the wedge-likea snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage at the...digging, and rooting, would be extremely beautiful. The great bag hanging to the bill of a pelican, a thing higbly useful to this animal, would be likewise... | |
| Paul Guyer - 1993 - 476 pages
..."I am apprehensive that experience was not sufficiently consulted." For example, "On that principle, the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage...offices of digging, and rooting, would be extremely beautiful."51 But Burke does follow Hume in rejecting Hutcheson's idea that there is a separate sense... | |
| Ekbert Faas - 2002 - 464 pages
...Gerard, and others had associated beauty with fitness and utility; Burke countered that, by that token, "the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage...the whole make of the head, so well adapted to its office of digging, and rooting, would be extremely beautiful."131 Shaftesbury, Spence, and Hutcheson... | |
| Paul Guyer - 2005 - 386 pages
...theory," he scornfully observes, "experience was not sufficiently consulted": For on that principle, the wedgelike snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage...digging, and rooting, would be extremely beautiful. The great bag hanging to the bill of a pelican, a thing highly useful to this animal, would be likewise... | |
| Denise Gigante - 2008 - 264 pages
...above all a "social quality" pertaining to taste.51 If fitness were a cause of beauty, he argues, then "the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage...digging, and rooting, would be extremely beautiful" (PE 105). When applied to swine, the term rooting means to dig with the snout in search of food, though... | |
| David Berman - 2005 - 246 pages
...drawn from ugly but useful domestic animals. Thus he notes that if the utility theory were correct 'the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage...the whole make of the head, so well adapted to its office of digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful'. For Hutcheson, as we have seen, also... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 574 pages
...this theory, I am appreheusive that experience was not sufficiently consulted For, on that principle, the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage...digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful. The great bag hanging to the bill of a pelican, a thing highly useful to this animal, would be likewise... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 574 pages
...this theory, I am apprehengive that experience was not sufficiently consulted For, on that principle, the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage...adapted to its offices of digging and rooting, would he extremely beautiful. The great bag hanging to the bill of a pelican, a thing highly useful to this... | |
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