The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 |
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Page 65
... seems too volatile to endure even the chains of a definition , cannot be properly tried by any test , nor regulated ... seem to be tacitly settled amongst the most ignorant . The learned have improved on this rude science , and reduced ...
... seems too volatile to endure even the chains of a definition , cannot be properly tried by any test , nor regulated ... seem to be tacitly settled amongst the most ignorant . The learned have improved on this rude science , and reduced ...
Page 77
... seems concerned ; little more also than the imagination seems concerned when the passions are represented , because by the force of natural sympathy they are felt in all men without any recourse to reasoning , and their justness ...
... seems concerned ; little more also than the imagination seems concerned when the passions are represented , because by the force of natural sympathy they are felt in all men without any recourse to reasoning , and their justness ...
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... seems to stand in the way of our general principle . We have considered darkness as a cause of the sublime , and we have all along considered the sublime as depending on some modification of pain or terror ; so that if darkness be no ...
... seems to stand in the way of our general principle . We have considered darkness as a cause of the sublime , and we have all along considered the sublime as depending on some modification of pain or terror ; so that if darkness be no ...
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A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of | 55 |
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