Sketches of the History of Man: Considerably Enlarged by the Last Additions and Corrections of the Author. ...J. J. Tourneisen, 1796 - 376 páginas |
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... progress of commerce , 4. Origin and progrefs of arts , Se & t . 1. Useful arts , 63 86 95 121 121 2. Progress of taste and of the fine arts , 147 5. Manners , VOL . I. 237 ! OF THE HISTORY OF MAN . THE Human Species CONTENTS.
... progress of commerce , 4. Origin and progrefs of arts , Se & t . 1. Useful arts , 63 86 95 121 121 2. Progress of taste and of the fine arts , 147 5. Manners , VOL . I. 237 ! OF THE HISTORY OF MAN . THE Human Species CONTENTS.
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... taste and luxury , the demand appears fo arbitrary as not to be reducible to any rule . A taste for beauty is general , but fo different in diffe . rent persons , as to make the demand extremely varia- ble : the faint reprefentation of ...
... taste and luxury , the demand appears fo arbitrary as not to be reducible to any rule . A taste for beauty is general , but fo different in diffe . rent persons , as to make the demand extremely varia- ble : the faint reprefentation of ...
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... taste and polifh , a talent for writing broke forth . Nevius compofed in verse feven books of the Punic war , befide comedies , replete with bitter raillery against the nobility ' . Ennius wrote annals , and an epic poem . Lucius ...
... taste and polifh , a talent for writing broke forth . Nevius compofed in verse feven books of the Punic war , befide comedies , replete with bitter raillery against the nobility ' . Ennius wrote annals , and an epic poem . Lucius ...
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... taste : yet both of them require much cultivation . Among favages , the moral fenfe is faint and obfcure ; and tafte ftill more fo . Even in the most enlighten . ed ages , it requires in a judge both education and experience to perceive ...
... taste : yet both of them require much cultivation . Among favages , the moral fenfe is faint and obfcure ; and tafte ftill more fo . Even in the most enlighten . ed ages , it requires in a judge both education and experience to perceive ...
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... taste . During the infancy of taste , imagination is fuf- fered to roam as in fleep , without control . Won- der is the paffion of favages and of ruftics ; to raise which , nothing is neceffary but to invent giants and magicians , fairy ...
... taste . During the infancy of taste , imagination is fuf- fered to roam as in fleep , without control . Won- der is the paffion of favages and of ruftics ; to raise which , nothing is neceffary but to invent giants and magicians , fairy ...
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