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Excerpt from An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste Containing a Sceptical View of thd'sirbject a. In its Principles. A. In Building, Furniture, Gardening, and Dress. 3. In imitative Art. 4. In Style. 5. In the Productions of Nature. 6. Of the Word Beauty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important...

Excerpt from An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste Containing a Sceptical View of the Subject. 1. In its Principles. 2. In Building, Furniture, Gardening, and Dress. 3. In imitative Art. 4. In Style. 5. In the Productions of Nature. 6. Of the Word Beauty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important...

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Richard Payne Knight investigates the genetic character of symbols, and the patterns of their occurrence in different cultures.

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This influential 1805 publication contributed to the debate on the picturesque and explored the role of associations in aesthetic judgement.

A 1791 inquiry into the original pronunciation of ancient Greek, using evidence from inscriptions, literature and coins.

Excerpt from The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology, Vol. 2: An Inquiry Higgins, while they excel in respect to scope, accuracy, conciseness, and the arrangement of subjects. They are of untold value for the unfolding of correcter views of Ancient Mythology than have been commonly entertained. Later research has enlarged the province of these investigations, and occasionally modified the conclusions which they had seemed to indi...

Excerpt from The Progress of Civil Society: A Didactic Poem, in Six Books The ellipsis of the verb are in the first line, between objects and 'mgb, is extremely harsh, and renders the passage scarcely English. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tec...

Excerpt from A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus: And Its Connection With the Mystic Theology of the Ancients Perhaps no Englifhman of modern times, or of any time, has intelligently treated (0 many different departments of literary refearch: Archaeology, Art, Bibliography, Chrillianity, Cufioms, Heraldry, Literary Hillary, Philology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more ...

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Excerpt from A Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox Idols of court, and puppets Of debate, Awhile they deck the pantomime of state, Like bubbles ¿oat upon the tide Of power, And shine the glittering meteors Of an hour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott...

Excerpt from The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology: An Inquiry Richard Payne Knight was one of the most thorough scholars of the earlier period of the present century. His works display profound judgment, discrimination, taste, acute ness and erudition. United with extraordinary candor and im partiality, and they constitute an invaluable collection of ancient and curious learning, from which the students of such literature can ...

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