Excerpt from Three Treatises: The First Concerning Art; The Second Concerning Music, Painting, and Poetry; The Third Concerning Happiness And here, my Lord, in pafiing over a few pleafant Fields, commenced the Con verfation which I am to tell you, and which fell at firl't, as was natural, on the many curious Works, which had afforded us both (0 elegant an' Amufement. This led us in fenfibly to difcourfing upon art, for we both agreed, that whatever we had been admiring of Fair and Beautiful, could allbe referred to no ...
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Excerpt from Three Treatises: The First Concerning Art; The Second Concerning Music, Painting, and Poetry; The Third Concerning Happiness And here, my Lord, in pafiing over a few pleafant Fields, commenced the Con verfation which I am to tell you, and which fell at firl't, as was natural, on the many curious Works, which had afforded us both (0 elegant an' Amufement. This led us in fenfibly to difcourfing upon art, for we both agreed, that whatever we had been admiring of Fair and Beautiful, could allbe referred to no other Caufe. And here, I fwell remember, I called upon my Friend -to give me his Opinion upon the meaning Of the word art: A word it was (i told him) in the Mouth of every one; bat that neverthelefs, as to its precife and defi nite Idea, this might {till he a Secret; that fo it was in fa�'c with a th'oufand Words befide, all no lefs common, and equally fa miliar, and yet all of them equally vague and undetermined. To this he anfwered, That as to the precife and definite Idea of Art, it: was a (qeftion of fome Difficulty, and not fo foon to'be refolved that, however, he could not conceive a more likely Method of coming to know it, than by confidering thofe feveral Particulars, to each of which we gave the Name. It is hardly probable, faid he, that Mufic, Painting, Medicine, Poetry, Agriculture, and fo many more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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