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... idea too frequently entertained , by persons who are not much interested in art , that there are no laws of right or wrong concerning it ; and that the best art is that which pleases most widely . Hence the constant allegation of ...
... idea too frequently entertained , by persons who are not much interested in art , that there are no laws of right or wrong concerning it ; and that the best art is that which pleases most widely . Hence the constant allegation of ...
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... ( Ideas of Beauty ) ; and , lastly , of pleasures taken in the meanings and relations of these things ( Ideas of Relation ) . The first volume , treating of the ideas of Truth , was chiefly occupied with an inquiry into the various ...
... ( Ideas of Beauty ) ; and , lastly , of pleasures taken in the meanings and relations of these things ( Ideas of Relation ) . The first volume , treating of the ideas of Truth , was chiefly occupied with an inquiry into the various ...
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... ideas of Beauty and Relation , by analysing ( as far as I was able to do so ) the two faculties of the human mind which mainly seized such ideas ; namely , the contemplative and imaginative faculties . It remains for us to examine the ...
... ideas of Beauty and Relation , by analysing ( as far as I was able to do so ) the two faculties of the human mind which mainly seized such ideas ; namely , the contemplative and imaginative faculties . It remains for us to examine the ...
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... ideas ; but I have not endeavoured to define the nature of this greatness in the ideas themselves . We speak of great truths , of great beauties , great thoughts . What is it which makes one truth greater than another , one thought ...
... ideas ; but I have not endeavoured to define the nature of this greatness in the ideas themselves . We speak of great truths , of great beauties , great thoughts . What is it which makes one truth greater than another , one thought ...
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... poetical painting . His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning . - " The Italian attends only to the invariable , the great and § 8 . general ideas which are fixed and inherent 6 PART IV . OF THE RECEIVED OPINIONS.
... poetical painting . His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning . - " The Italian attends only to the invariable , the great and § 8 . general ideas which are fixed and inherent 6 PART IV . OF THE RECEIVED OPINIONS.
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