Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in WomanJ. & H.G. Langley, 1840 - 390 sider |
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Side 14
... skin , or paleness of complexion ; and either of these will as certainly indicate want of goodness in the vital system , or that of nutrition . There may exist a malformation of the brain , externally evident ; and this no less ...
... skin , or paleness of complexion ; and either of these will as certainly indicate want of goodness in the vital system , or that of nutrition . There may exist a malformation of the brain , externally evident ; and this no less ...
Side 15
... skin are the characteristics of health , and their absence warns us that the condition of woman is unfavorable to the plan of nature rela- tively to the maintenance of the species — or , if the capacity of the pelvis , and the ...
... skin are the characteristics of health , and their absence warns us that the condition of woman is unfavorable to the plan of nature rela- tively to the maintenance of the species — or , if the capacity of the pelvis , and the ...
Side 27
... skins , rude manners , and contagious diseases , are at all seductive . Nothing , then , can be more favorable to virtue than the decoration of every house with the beau- tiful copies of the glorious works of ancient Greece ; and it is ...
... skins , rude manners , and contagious diseases , are at all seductive . Nothing , then , can be more favorable to virtue than the decoration of every house with the beau- tiful copies of the glorious works of ancient Greece ; and it is ...
Side 31
... skins of brutes — though all this is true as to the arts of Greece , we are told that , by the strangest exception , the religion of Greece was a base superstition . That religion , however , was the creator of these arts . They not ...
... skins of brutes — though all this is true as to the arts of Greece , we are told that , by the strangest exception , the religion of Greece was a base superstition . That religion , however , was the creator of these arts . They not ...
Side 94
... skin , is formed by a tissue of these vessels . Ac- cordingly , both the vessels themselves , and the tissue which they form , present the delicacy , the bending , the variety , and the contrast , which are the characters of the ...
... skin , is formed by a tissue of these vessels . Ac- cordingly , both the vessels themselves , and the tissue which they form , present the delicacy , the bending , the variety , and the contrast , which are the characters of the ...
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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