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
| Peter Legh - 1831 - 386 pages
...cannot be reckoned among the causes of beauty, for on that principle the wedge-like snout of the sow, with its tough cartilage at the end, the little sunk...the whole make of the head, so well adapted to its office of digging and routing, would be extremely beautiful." What I shall we say that salt is not... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1834 - 408 pages
...how it is that they give us pleasure in viewing them : I mean, those writers who would reduce iill beauty in architecture to the principles of utility,...serve as a castle to its rightful occupier ! but I lancy that more admiration is bestowed upon it when, by being wrought into ornaments, this fitness... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...this theory, I am apprehensive that experience was not sufficiently consulted. For, on that principle, If the interest office« of digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful. Th« great bag hanging to the bill of... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...sufficiently consulted. For, on that principle, the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage ut the end, the little sunk eyes, and the whole make...digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful. The great bag hanging to tiie bill of a pelican, a thing highly useful to this, animal, would be likewise... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...this theory, I am apprehensive that experience was not sufficiently consulted. For, on that principle, n she let loose the reigns of regal ^/, authority,...opinions and practices ; and has extended tbrough all The great bag hanging to the hill of a pelican, a thing highly useful to this animat, would be likewise... | |
| Alexander Walker - 1836 - 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...digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful." — And so they are, when the beauty of fitness for their purpose is considered ; but that purpose... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...this theory, I am apprehensive that experience was not sufficiently consulted. For, on that principle, st view so apparent, that The great bag hanging to the bill of a pelican, a thing highly useful to this animal, would be likewise... | |
| Alexander Walker - 1840 - 434 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,...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1844 - 232 pages
...apprehensive that experience_ hvas not sufficiently consulted ; for, on that principle, tne^wedge-hke snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage at the...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... | |
| Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 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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