Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in WomanJ. & H.G. Langley, 1840 - 390 sider |
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Side iv
... present work . He must be weak - minded , indeed , who can seek for aught in philosophy but the discovery of truth ; and he must be a coward who , believing he has discovered it , has any scruple to announce it . APRIL 10 , 1836 ...
... present work . He must be weak - minded , indeed , who can seek for aught in philosophy but the discovery of truth ; and he must be a coward who , believing he has discovered it , has any scruple to announce it . APRIL 10 , 1836 ...
Side v
... present volume completes the series of Mr. Walker's anthropological works . To say that they have met with a favorable reception from the American public , would be but a very inadequate expression of the unpre- cedented success which ...
... present volume completes the series of Mr. Walker's anthropological works . To say that they have met with a favorable reception from the American public , would be but a very inadequate expression of the unpre- cedented success which ...
Side vi
... present edition , it has been thought expedient to make some verbal alterations , and omit a few paragraphs , to which a refined taste might perhaps object , and to bring together in the Appendix such collat- eral matter , as might ...
... present edition , it has been thought expedient to make some verbal alterations , and omit a few paragraphs , to which a refined taste might perhaps object , and to bring together in the Appendix such collat- eral matter , as might ...
Side xii
... presents too many instances of the monarch power of Beauty in woman , to permit us to doubt upon this subject . It has passed upon the spirit of Man like a thing of necromance - winning him to its command , and bowing him to its will ...
... presents too many instances of the monarch power of Beauty in woman , to permit us to doubt upon this subject . It has passed upon the spirit of Man like a thing of necromance - winning him to its command , and bowing him to its will ...
Side xvi
... presents so continually around him the elements of that power he is foolish to resist , and unable , after all , to de ... present us with their Helens and their Cleopatras , who wrought upon na- tions by the magic of their faces . Later ...
... presents so continually around him the elements of that power he is foolish to resist , and unable , after all , to de ... present us with their Helens and their Cleopatras , who wrought upon na- tions by the magic of their faces . Later ...
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abdomen action admiration agreeable ancient animals appear artists beauty in woman body brain Burke cause cerebrum CHAPTER character clavicles Cnidos color consequently considered constitute countenance degree delicacy delicate effect elements of beauty emotion excite expression external face facial angle farther feeling female figure five temperaments forehead functions grace greater Greeks hair head Hence human human voice idea ideal imagination indicated individual influence intellectual kind of beauty less libertinism limbs locomotive system male mammæ ment mental mind mons veneris moral motion muscles muscular nature ness nose novelty nutritive objects observed passions peculiar pelvis perfect person physiognomy pleasure possess Praxiteles present principles proportion puberty qualities reason regard relation remarkable render respect says sensation sensibility skin soft species of beauty sublime taste temperament thinking tion trunk variety Venus Venus de Medici viscera vital system Vitruvius Winckelmann women writer