Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - Edinburgh review |
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... seems , at first sight , impossible to discover any other bond of connec- tion . Yet boundless as their diversity may appear , it is plain that they must resemble each other in something , and in something more definite and definable ...
... seems , at first sight , impossible to discover any other bond of connec- tion . Yet boundless as their diversity may appear , it is plain that they must resemble each other in something , and in something more definite and definable ...
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... seems almost exclusively ap- plicable to works of human art ; it being plain enough , we think , that a beautiful ... seem to have been resumed for long after the revival of letters . The followers of Leibnitz were pleased to maintain ...
... seems almost exclusively ap- plicable to works of human art ; it being plain enough , we think , that a beautiful ... seem to have been resumed for long after the revival of letters . The followers of Leibnitz were pleased to maintain ...
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... seems to have been suggested by a consideration of animal forms , or perhaps of the human figure exclu- sively . In these forms , it is quite true that great and monstrous deviations from the usual proportions are extremely disagreeable ...
... seems to have been suggested by a consideration of animal forms , or perhaps of the human figure exclu- sively . In these forms , it is quite true that great and monstrous deviations from the usual proportions are extremely disagreeable ...
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... seems to have been hastily adopted by the ingenious persons who have maintained it , partly upon the narrow ground of the disgust pro- duced by monsters in the animal creation , which has been already sufficiently explained , and partly ...
... seems to have been hastily adopted by the ingenious persons who have maintained it , partly upon the narrow ground of the disgust pro- duced by monsters in the animal creation , which has been already sufficiently explained , and partly ...
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... seems to us , with some little admixture of error , from which it will not , however , be difficult to separate it . Mr. Alison maintains , that all beauty , or at least that all the beauty of material objects , depends on the asso ...
... seems to us , with some little admixture of error , from which it will not , however , be difficult to separate it . Mr. Alison maintains , that all beauty , or at least that all the beauty of material objects , depends on the asso ...
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