 | Voltaire - 1765 - 356 pages
...Pythagorean fyftem, " Quod Deus fit anima tnundi." See Ruxus on Virg. JEn. lib. vi. ver. 726. projecting out of its little head ; a broad and flat neck, yellow...fomething correfpondent to BEAUTY IN THE ABSTRACT, tO the TO-KALON. I once fat next to a philofopher at a tragedy ; that's beautiful, faid he ! How beautiful... | |
 | François Marie Arouet de Voltaire - 1766 - 396 pages
...a Guinea Negro ; and with him beauty is a greafy black fkin, hoJIow eyes, and a flat uofe. Put your queftion to the Devil, and he will tell you, that...horns, four claws, and a tail. Confult the philofophers Jikewife, they will tell you fbme unintelligible jargon for anfwer, they tnuft have fomething correfpondent... | |
 | Voltaire - 1802 - 398 pages
...Negro ; and with him beauty is a greasy black skin, hollow eyes, and a flat nose. Put the question to the devil, and he will tell you, that beauty is a pair of horns, four claws, and a tail. Consult the philosophers likewise, they will give you some unintelligible jargon for answer, they must... | |
 | Liber - 1809 - 372 pages
...negro ; and with him beauty is a greasy, black skin, hollow eyes, and a flat nose. Put the question to the devil, and he will tell you, that beauty is a pair of horns, four claws, and a tail. Consult the philosophers likewise, they will give you some unintelligible jargon for answer, they must... | |
 | William Kitchiner - 1823 - 738 pages
...back.— With a Guinea Negro, it is a greasy black skin, hollow eyes and a flat nose. — Put the question to the Devil, and he will tell you, that BEAUTY is a pair of Horns, four Claws, and a Tail." Assaftstida was called by the Ancients, " FOOD FOR THE GODS." The Persians, Indians, and other Eastern... | |
 | William Kitchiner - 1827 - 524 pages
...— With a Guinea Negro, it is a greasy black skin, hollow eyes and a flat nose. — Put the question to the Devil, and he will tell you, that BEAUTY is a pair of Horns, four Claws, and a Tail." — VOLTAIRE'S Philos. Diet. 8vo. p. 32. AisaftKtida was called by the Ancients, " FOOD FOR THE GODS."... | |
 | William Kitchiner - 1836 - 432 pages
...back. With a Guinea Negro, it is a greasy black skin, hollow eyes, and a flat nose. Put the question to the Devil, and. he will tell you that BEAUTY is a pair of Horns, four Claws, and a Tail." — VOLTAIRE'S Philos. Diet. 8vo, p. 32. " Assafcstida, was called by the Ancients ' FOOD FOR THE GODS,'... | |
 | 1842 - 858 pages
...Guinea Negro, and with him beauty is a greasy black skin, hollow eyes, and a flat nose. Put the question to the Devil, and he will tell you that beauty is a pair of horns, four claws, and a tail. Consult the philosophers likewise, and they will give you some unintelligible jargon for answer : they... | |
 | Hans Gross - 1911 - 544 pages
...bewitched women concerning a dried skin." And Voltaire says, " If you ask the devil what beauty is, he will tell you that beauty is a pair of horns, four hoofs, and a tail." Yet, when we ask a witness what is beautiful, we think that we are asking for a... | |
 | Hans Gross - 1911 - 544 pages
...bewitched women concerning a dried skin." And Voltaire says, " If you ask the devil what beauty is, he will tell you that beauty is a pair of horns, four hoofs, and a tail." Yet, when we ask a witness what is beautiful, we think that we are asking for a... | |
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Ask a Guinea Negro ; and with him beauty is a greasy black skin, hollow eyes, and a flat nose. Put the question to the devil, and he will tell you, that beauty is a pair of horns, four claws, and a tail. 
