 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - Characters and characteristics - 1714 - 462 pages
...Advantage, by adapting to Activity and Ufe. Even in the imitative or defigning Arts (to which our Author fb often refers) the Truth or Beauty of every Figure...Proportion to the Activity, Strength, Dexterity, Life and Vigour of the particular Species or Animal depgrfd. THUS Beauty and * Truth are plainly join'd with... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - Characters and characteristics - 1727 - 462 pages
...Advantage, by adapting to Activity and Ufe. Even in the imitative or designing Arts (to which our Author fb often refers) the Truth or Beauty of every Figure or Statue is meafur'd from the Perfe&ion of Nature, in her juft adapting of every Limb and Proportion to the Activity, Strength, Dexterity,... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - Characters and characteristics - 1773 - 476 pages
...Activity and Ufe. Even in the imitative or defigning Arts (to which our Author fo often refers) theTruth or Beauty of every Figure or Statue is meafur'd from...juft adapting of every Limb and Proportion to the Aclivity, Strength, Dexterity, Life and Vigor of the particular Species or Animal defigrid. THUS Beauty... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - Characters and characteristics - 1790 - 428 pages
...beauty, afford advantage, by adapting to activity and ufe. Even in the imitative or defigniug arts, to which our author fo often refers, the truth or beauty of every figure or ftatue is meafured from the perfection of nature , in her juft adapting of every limb and proportion... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - Characters and characteristics - 1900 - 432 pages
...the truth or beauty of every figure or statue is measured from the j1erfection of Nature in her just adapting of every limb and proportion to the activity, strength, dexterity, life and vigour of the particular species or animal designed. Thus beauty and truth are plainly joined with... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - Characters and characteristics - 1900 - 396 pages
...advantage by adapting to activity and use. Even in the imitative or designing arts (to which our author so often refers) the truth or beauty of every figure or statue is measured from the perfection of Nature in her just adapting of every limb and proportion to the activity,... | |
 | Malcolm Howard Dewey - Aesthetics - 1920 - 158 pages
...Shaftesbury acknowledges indebtedness to Bossu with regard to Aristotle. perfection of nature, in her just adapting of every limb and proportion to the activity,...life and vigor of the particular species or animal designed. Thus beauty and truth are plainly joined with the notion of utility and convenience."19 This... | |
 | Albert Hofstadter, Richard Kuhns - Philosophy - 2009 - 730 pages
...advantage by adapting to activity and use. Even in the imitative or designing arts (to which our author so often refers) the truth or beauty of every figure or statue is measured from the perfection of Nature in her just adapting of every limb and proportion to the activity,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1997 - 614 pages
...'the Truth or Brauty of everv Figare or Statue is measur'd from the Perfeetion of Nature, in her just adapting of every Limb and Proportion to the Activity, Strength, Dexterity, Life and Vigour of the particular Species or Animal d.«1go 'if'l6th edn., t737, iii. t8nt. Hogarth assened... | |
 | Paul Guyer - Philosophy - 1993 - 476 pages
...the truth or beauty of every figure or statue is measured from the perfection of Nature in the just adapting of every limb and proportion to the activity, strength, dexterity, life and vigour of the particular species or animal designed. Thus beauty and truth are plainly joined with... | |
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... from the perfection of Nature in her just adapting of every limb and proportion to the activity, strength, dexterity, life and vigour of the particular species or animal designed. 
