Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… Earth, and Animated Nature (London: J. Nourse, 1774), vol. 2, p. 76. Identifying the features of a beautiful physical appearance was somewhat simpler than explaining the moral values associated with a person’s inner beauty. The preferred … of the perception of beauty not only incorporated similar thoughts on physiognomy, or the effect of character on the appearance, but also debated how the perception of a person’s character was processed by the viewer: how did one … be seen as a process of opposition. Indeed, Edmund Burke stipulated that women’s greater beauty was a result of their ‘appearance of delicacy ’, and the submissive qualities aligned with femininity. Like Shaftesbury, Burke suggested that …
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