 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.  The Architectural Magazine - Page 387edited by - 1834Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Willi Real - 1973 - 204 pages
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 | Pierre Fontaney - 1980 - 570 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 1982 - 380 pages
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 | 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... | |
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