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" ... as for those called critics, they have generally sought the rule of the arts in the wrong place; they sought it among poems, pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reason... "
The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence]. - Page 115
by Edmund Burke - 1792
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...rule off the arts in the wrong place ; they sought it among poems,! pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can! never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reason why artists in general, and poets • principally, have been confined...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...the ban's of fare experience. We might expect that the artifts themfelves would have been ouf fureft guides; but the artifts have been too much occupied...generally fought the rule of the arts in the wrong places they fought it among poems, pi&ures, engravings, ftatues and buildings. But art can) never give...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1767 - 368 pages
...the bafls of fure experience. We might expect that the artifts themfelves would have been our fureft guides ; but the artifts have been too much occupied...moftly with a view to their own fchemes and fyftems$ •">;.. 3 and and as for thofe called critics, they have generally fought the rule of the arts in...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1776 - 368 pages
...experience. We might expect that the artifts themfelves would have been our fureft guides; but the arrifts have been too much occupied in the practice : the...buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, J believe, the reafon why artifts in general, and poets principally, have been confined...
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A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1787 - 368 pages
...the bafis of fure experience. We might expect that the artifts themfelves would have been our fureft guides ; but the artifts have been too much occupied...buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reafon why artifts in general, and poets principally, have .been confined...
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The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...the bafis of fure experience. We might expect that the artifts themfelves would have been our fureft guides ; but the artifts have been too much occupied...done, was moftly with a view to their own fchemes and fy ftems: and as for thofe called critics, they have generally fought the rule of the arts in the wrong...
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An Appeal to the Loyal Citizens of Dublin

Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 1800 - 674 pages
...been our fureft guides ; but the artifts have been too much occupied in the pra&ice : the philofophcrs have done little ; and what they have done, was moftly...arts in the wrong place ; they fought it among poems, piftures, engravings-., tings, ftatues and buildings. But art can never give the rujes that make an...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 366 pages
...the bafis of fure experience. We might expect that the artifts themfelves would have been onr fureft guides ; but the artifts have been too much occupied...their own fchemes and fyftems: and as for thofe called criticks, they have generally fought the rule of the arts in the wrong place ; they fought it among...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 366 pages
...the bafis of fuse experience. We might expect: that the artifts themfelves would have been our fureft guides ; but the artifts have been too much occupied...philofophers have done little ; and what they have done, was moflly with a view to their own fchemes and fyftems : and as for thofe called criticks, they have generally...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...the rule of the arts in the wrong place ; they sought it among poems, pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reason why artists in general, and poets principally, have been confined...
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