 becaufe human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon certainty, never becomes infallible, and approbation, though long continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or  The Monthly Magazine - Side 6001800Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Samuel Johnson - 1973 - 492 sider
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 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 600 sider
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 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 655 sider
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honors at every transmission. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion; it is 1. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras discovered that the principal intervals of the musical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1979 - 138 sider
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 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 sider
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honors at every transmission. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion; it is proper to inquire, by what peculiarities of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept... | |
 | Charles H. Hinnant - 1994 - 276 sider
...there is always in Johnson a qualifying insistence that "approbation" is never absolutely certain, for "approbation, though long continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion" (Shakespeare, VII: 61). Indeed, the notion of the consensus gentium can actually mislead the... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 212 sider
...the common sense of literature was never altogether firm: "Human judgment," he writes in the preface, "though it be gradually gaining upon certainty, never...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion." We may recall further certain facts immediately pertinent to literary common sense that Johnson... | |
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