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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding - Page 159
by John Locke - 1849 - 132 pages
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The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Old English Bible Words

Jonathan Eastwood - 1866 - 588 pages
...shall help to give him strength To make a more requital to your love I Shakespeare, K. John, II. 1. A man cannot tell, whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler: whereof the one would make a personage by geometricall proportions : the other, by taking...
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Roses and Holly. A Gift-book for All the Year

Roses - 1867 - 172 pages
...of colour , and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no, nor...tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions; the other, by taking the...
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The Authorship of Shakespeare

Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...of favour. That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; nor the first sight of life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some...tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking...
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Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His ...

Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour. That [4] is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life. There [5] is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...of colour, and that of decent' arid gracious' motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express, no, nor...tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more' trifler ; whereof the one 1 Almost. For the most part ; generally. ' Who ia there almost, whose mind...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 pages
...of colour, and that of decent5 and gracious8 motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express, no, nor...cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more7 trifler ; whereof the one 1 Almost. For the most part; generally. 'Who is there almost, whose...
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Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pages
...Motion, more then that of Favour. That is the best Part of Beauty, which a Picture cannot expresse; No nor the first Sight of the Life. There is no Excellent Beauty, that hath not some Strangenesse in the Proportion. A Man cannot tell, whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more...
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...colour ; and that of decent 2 and gracious 3 motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no, nor...tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more 4 trifler ; 5 whereof the one would make n personage by geometrical proportions : the other, by taking...
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Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive : with Copious ...

William Stanley Jevons - 1870 - 420 pages
...truth. (20) The wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. (21) Unsafe are all things unbecoming. (22) There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. (23) It is a poor centre of a man's actions, himself. (24) Mercy but murders, pardoning those that...
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The Essays of Lord Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...of colour; and that of decent and gracious2 motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express; no, nor...tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; 3 the other, by taking...
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