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
| 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... | |
| Peter Kivy - 2003 - 418 pages
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| Peter Kivy - 2003 - 426 pages
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| Edmund Burke - 2004 - 516 pages
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| 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 - 2007 - 448 pages
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| 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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