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... Beauty; and if those which compose the class of the Beautiful have the same consistency with themselves, and the same opposition to those which are classed under the denomination of Sublime, I am in little pain whether anybody chooses ...
... Beauty; and if those which compose the class of the Beautiful have the same consistency with themselves, and the same opposition to those which are classed under the denomination of Sublime, I am in little pain whether anybody chooses ...
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... BEAUTY. The passion which belongs to generation, merely as such, is lust only. This is evident in brutes, whose passions are more unmixed, and which pursue their purposes more directly than ours. The only distinction they observe with ...
... BEAUTY. The passion which belongs to generation, merely as such, is lust only. This is evident in brutes, whose passions are more unmixed, and which pursue their purposes more directly than ours. The only distinction they observe with ...
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... beauty of the sex. Men are carried to the sex in general, as it is the sex, and by the common law of nature; but they are attached to particulars by personal beauty. I call beauty a social quality; for where women and men, and not only ...
... beauty of the sex. Men are carried to the sex in general, as it is the sex, and by the common law of nature; but they are attached to particulars by personal beauty. I call beauty a social quality; for where women and men, and not only ...
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... beauty of women. The other is the great society with man and all other animals. The passion subservient to this is called likewise love, but it has no mixture of lust, and its object is beauty; which is a name I shall apply to all such ...
... beauty of women. The other is the great society with man and all other animals. The passion subservient to this is called likewise love, but it has no mixture of lust, and its object is beauty; which is a name I shall apply to all such ...
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... is because in the rotund at one glance you see half the building. This I do not imagine to be the real cause. [21] Part IV. sect. 4, 5, 6. [22] Sect. 3. [23] Vide Part I. sect. 6. PART III. SECTION I. OF BEAUTY. It is my design.
... is because in the rotund at one glance you see half the building. This I do not imagine to be the real cause. [21] Part IV. sect. 4, 5, 6. [22] Sect. 3. [23] Vide Part I. sect. 6. PART III. SECTION I. OF BEAUTY. It is my design.
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