 | 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 - 248 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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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. 
