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Pagina 104
... taste , which may be considered as the link between science and common sense , the medium through which learning should ever be seen by society . Taste will therefore often be a proper standard , when others fail , to judge of a ...
... taste , which may be considered as the link between science and common sense , the medium through which learning should ever be seen by society . Taste will therefore often be a proper standard , when others fail , to judge of a ...
Pagina 109
... taste , for in this there is no standard to judge of our desert , our manners being un- known . Truth is a positive , taste a relative excellence . We may justly appeal from the sentence of our judges ; though we must do them the ...
... taste , for in this there is no standard to judge of our desert , our manners being un- known . Truth is a positive , taste a relative excellence . We may justly appeal from the sentence of our judges ; though we must do them the ...
Pagina 112
... taste , therefore , proceeds from a know- ledge of what is beautiful and useful . Criticism professes to increase our taste . But our taste cannot be increased with regard to beauty ; because , as has been shown , our perceptions of ...
... taste , therefore , proceeds from a know- ledge of what is beautiful and useful . Criticism professes to increase our taste . But our taste cannot be increased with regard to beauty ; because , as has been shown , our perceptions of ...
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CHAPTER | 3 |
III | 21 |
Of the present state of polite learning in Italy | 27 |
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