 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1767 - 366 pages
...felects as the Painter does, the moft beautiful, that is, the moft general form of nature. EVERY fpecies of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may...continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...beautiful, that is, the moft general form of nature. . . Every fpecies of the animal as well as tb« vegetable creation may be faid to have a fixed or...continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center; or it maybe compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...felects, as the painter does, the moft beautiful, that is, the moft general form of nature. Every fpecies of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may...have a fixed or determinate form towards which nature fs continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center; or it may be compared to pendururns... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...form of nature. Every f|>ecies of the animal as well аз the vegetable creation may be faid to bave a fixed or determinate form towards which nature is...continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center; or ¡t may be compared to pendulums vibrating in di fièrent directions over one central point;... | |
 | Ebenezer Sibly - Astrology - 1802 - 420 pages
...that particular caft which conftitutes beauty. Every particular fpecies of the animal as well as of the vegetable creation may be faid to have a fixed or determinate form, to which, as to a centre, nature is continually inclining. Or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...as the painter docs, the moil beautiful, that is, the moit general form of nature. " Every fpecies of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be faid to have ia fixed or determinate form, towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pages
...that particular caft which conilitutes beauty. Every particular fpecies of the animsl as well as of the vegetable creation, may be faid to have a fixed or determinate form, to which, a< to a centre, nature is continuity inclining. Or it may H h be nie '(liier. Love, be compared... | |
 | 1792 - 620 pages
...as the painter' does, the moft beautiful, that .is, the moft general form of nature. Every fpecies of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be faid to have a fixed or determined form, towards which naturi is continually inclining like various lines terminating in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...most general form of nature. Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form towards which...continually inclining, like various lines terminating hi the centre ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...Every species," he observes, " of the animal •• as well as the vegetable creation, may be said to " have a fixed or determinate form, towards which...inclining, like various lines " terminating in the centre ; and, as these lines all " cross the. centre, though only one passes through " any other point, so... | |
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Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which nature is continually inclining... 
