The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 |
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Page 74
... observations on shoes , and was content with a general resemblance , had never observed . But this was no impeachment to the taste of the painter ; it only showed some want of knowledge in the art of making shoes . Let us imagine that ...
... observations on shoes , and was content with a general resemblance , had never observed . But this was no impeachment to the taste of the painter ; it only showed some want of knowledge in the art of making shoes . Let us imagine that ...
Page 75
... observed one defect ; he observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck . The sultan on this occa- sion , though his observation was very just , discovered no more natural taste than the painter who executed ...
... observed one defect ; he observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck . The sultan on this occa- sion , though his observation was very just , discovered no more natural taste than the painter who executed ...
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... observed what turn of mind he seemed to acquire by this change . " So that , " says my author , " he was able to enter into the dispositions and thoughts of people as effectually as if he had been changed into the very men . I have ...
... observed what turn of mind he seemed to acquire by this change . " So that , " says my author , " he was able to enter into the dispositions and thoughts of people as effectually as if he had been changed into the very men . I have ...
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