 | Alexander Walker - 1845 - 420 pages
...experience was not sufficiently consulted. For, on that principle, the wedgelike snout of a swine with its 9 tough cartilage at the end, the little sunk eyes,...digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful." — And so they are, when the beauty of fitness for their purpose is considered ; but that purpose... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 pages
...; The growing liver still supply'd the feast. Dryden. Jrii'git. sEneid, book vi. On that principle, the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage at the end, and little sunk eyes, and the whole make of the head, so well adapted to its offices of digging and... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1846 - 528 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...offices of digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful."—And so they are, when the beauty of fitness for their purpose is considered; but that... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pages
...association. " Why," says Mr. Burke, " upon " this principle of utility, the wedge-like snout of a sow, " with its tough cartilage at the end, the little sunk...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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 pages
...association. " Why," says Mr. Burke, " upon this principle of utility, the wedge-like snout of a sow, with its tough cartilage at the end, the little sunk eyes, and the whole make o£ the head, so well adapted to its offices of digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful."... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1856 - 238 pages
...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...make of the head, so well adapted to its offices of digBetween beauty and ugliness what is found? Of utility, what idea has prevailed ? What has been the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...this theory, I am apprehensive that experience was not sufficiently consulted. For, on that principle, he extremely heautiful. The great hag hanging to the Ki II of a pelican, a thing highly useful to this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 572 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 - 1902 - 558 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 - 1909 - 498 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... | |
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For, on that principle, the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage at the end, the little sunk eyes, and the whole make of the head, so well adapted to its offices of digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful. 
