 | Jeremy Black - History - 2007 - 314 pages
...seen, for example, in Joshua Reynolds's essay on beauty in the 10 November 1759 issue of the the Idler. It is custom alone determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the Aethiopians, and they, for the same reason, prefer their own colour to ours. I suppose no body will... | |
 | Charles A. Cramer - Art - 2006 - 196 pages
...custom in his 1759 letters to The Idler: Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of [nature's] works to another, the most general, I believe, is habit and custom. . . . [Clustom alone determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the Ethiopians, and... | |
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Among the various reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another, the most general, I believe, is habit and custom : custom makes, in a certain sense, white black, and black white ; it is custom alone determines our preference of the colour of... 
