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1.  Of The Standard Of Taste / Hume, David
   with regard to beauty and deformity of all kinds, even while their general discourse is the same ... beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every  details...
   • creator(s) - Hume, David
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   • subject(s) - sentiment; deformity; taste; approbation; standard; sentiments; delicacy; species; composition; principles; prejudice; judgment; blame; western philosophy; standard; delicacy; judgment; prejudice; western philosophy; principles; taste; blame; composition; approbation; sentiment; species; sentiments; deformity;
   • title - Of The Standard Of Taste
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2.  Philosophical works [electronic resource] / including all the essays, and exhibiting the more important alterations and corrections in the successive editions public by the author / Hume, David, 1711-1776
   Of Vice and Virtue 26 Of Beauty and Deformity 30 Of external Advantages and Disadvantages . . . . . 36 ... kinds, viz. the calm and the violent. Of the first kind is the sense of beauty and deformity in action  details...
   • creator(s) - Hume, David, 1711-1776
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   • publisher - Boston : Little, Brown, c1854
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   • subject(s) - passions; humility; hatred; humility; hume, david, 1711-1776; hatred; passions;
   • title - Philosophical works [electronic resource] / including all the essays, and exhibiting the more important alterations and corrections in the successive editions public by the author
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3.  An essay on the beautiful (from the Greek of Plotinus) tr. by Thomas Taylor. / Plotinus
   out of the deformed.) But from such a definition, it follows, that beautiful colours and the light of the sun ... with the deformed, it hastily starts from the view and retires abhorrent from its discordant nature. For since  details...
   • creator(s) - Plotinus
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   • publisher - London, J.M. Watkins, 1917.
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   • subject(s) - aesthetics early works to 1800; essay; corporeal; intellect; beautiful; soul; beauty; intellect; aesthetics early works to 1800; soul; corporeal; beauty; beautiful; essay;
   • title - An essay on the beautiful (from the Greek of Plotinus) tr. by Thomas Taylor.
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4.  The Black Dwarf / Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
   being who is here presented as residing in solitude, and haunted by a consciousness of his own deformity, and a suspicion ... , was his prominent characteristic. The sense of his deformity haunted him like a phantom. And the insults and scorn  details...
   • creator(s) - Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
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   • subject(s) - earnscliff; ellieslaw; hobbie; ratcliffe; elshie; mareschal; hae; elliot; isabella; dwarf; sae; hobbie elliot; frederick langley; young earnscliff; frederick; mareschal; elshie; ellieslaw; young earnscliff; isabella; hobbie elliot; hobbie; frederick langley; sae; hae; frederick; elliot; earnscliff; dwarf; ratcliffe;
   • title - The Black Dwarf
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5.  The Lane That Had No Turning, Complete / Parker, Gilbert, 1860-1932
   more than a deformed Seigneur of an obscure manor in Quebec. As his gloomy imagination pictured the future ... said his sentences easily, but he suddenly flushed and was embarrassed, for Louis Racine's deformity  details...
   • creator(s) - Parker, Gilbert, 1860-1932
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   • subject(s) - parpon; madelinette; pontiac; medallion; mcgilveray; seigneur; fournel; avocat; p'tite louison; cure; george fournel; louis; little chemist; louis racine; monsieur; madame; baron; madame; monsieur; george fournel; medallion; little chemist; cure; p'tite louison; baron; fournel; pontiac; parpon; seigneur; madelinette; mcgilveray; louis; avocat; louis racine;
   • title - The Lane That Had No Turning, Complete
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6.  An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc. / Reynolds, Frances
   does it enable him to see deformity, or what is an unusual appearance in that form. But, though unusual defects ... of transparency or a more perfect white could be by an absence of any of the figures; so any degree of deformity  details...
   • creator(s) - Reynolds, Frances
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   • subject(s) - taste; miss reynolds; sentiment; principles; beauty; virtue; moral; grace; moral; principles; virtue; taste; beauty; sentiment; miss reynolds; grace;
   • title - An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc.
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7.  A Message To Garcia / Hubbard, Elbert
   . Of course I know that one so morally deformed is no less to be pitied than a physical cripple ...  details...
   • creator(s) - Hubbard, Elbert
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   • subject(s) - garcia; rowan; message; factory; enterprise; employer; delivered; american literature; delivered; employer; garcia; factory; enterprise; message; american literature; rowan;
   • title - A Message To Garcia
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8.  Of The Delicacy Of Taste And Passion / Hume, David
   the same sensibility to beauty and deformity of every kind, as that does to prosperity and adversity ...  details...
   • creator(s) - Hume, David
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   • subject(s) - delicacy; fieser; jfieser; utm; relish; taste; sensibility; passion; mankind; friendship; james; sensible; sensibly; shown; temper; judgment; errors; computer; passions; western philosophy; delicacy; judgment; james; jfieser; passion; utm; temper; fieser; western philosophy; sensibility; sensible; friendship; mankind; passions; relish; computer; shown; errors; taste; sensibly;
   • title - Of The Delicacy Of Taste And Passion
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9.  The Duc De L Omlette / Poe, Edgar Allen
   of gigantic proportions. Their beauty was Grecian, their deformity Egyptian, their tout ensemble French ...  details...
   • creator(s) - Poe, Edgar Allen
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   • subject(s) - duc; que; majesty; diable; mais; grace; american literature; mais; diable; majesty; que; duc; grace; american literature;
   • title - The Duc De L Omlette
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10.  Seven Discourses on Art / Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
    , will by habit be taught to overlook defects, and mistake deformity for beauty ... under the influence of passion; and often catches the most pleasing hints from subjects of turbulence or deformity  details...
    • creator(s) - Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
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    • subject(s) - painter; michael angelo; art; painters; genius; imitation; imitation; michael angelo; painters; genius; art; painter;
    • title - Seven Discourses on Art
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