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" ... the centre ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point ; and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point... "
Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 122
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The Discourses

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 330 pages
...towards which Nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the centre; or it may bo compared to pendulums vibrating in different 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...
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Discourses Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1905 - 564 pages
...developed. Reynolds says : " 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...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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...
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