| 1792 - 620 pages
...well as the vegetable creation may be faid to have a fixed or determined form, towards which naturi is continually inclining like various lines terminating...through any other point, fo it will be found that perfect beauty is oftener produced by nature than deformity. I don't mean than deformity in general,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...or determinate form towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating hi the centre ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating...different directions over one central point ; and as they dl cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...general form of nature. ,„... Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form towards which...directions over one central point, and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 pages
...general form of nature. • Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which...directions over one central point : and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art, English - 1819 - 446 pages
...general form of nature. to'Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which...directions over one central point: and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...form towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different...directions over one central point, and as they all cross the center, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...form towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different...directions over one central point, and as they all cross the center, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...most general form of nature. Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form towards which...directions over one central point, and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 pages
...general form of nature. ' Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form towards which...directions over one central point, and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 886 pages
...general form of nature. " Every species of the animal as well as ihc vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which...different directions over one central point ; and аз they all cross the centre, though only one passes thrbugh any other point, so it will be found... | |
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