The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 |
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Page 183
... uniform labour , which is allied to strong pain , and causes the sublime . The sum total of things of various kinds , though it should equal the number of the uniform parts composing some one entire object , is not equal in its effect ...
... uniform labour , which is allied to strong pain , and causes the sublime . The sum total of things of various kinds , though it should equal the number of the uniform parts composing some one entire object , is not equal in its effect ...
Page 184
... uniform succession of great parts : we observed , too , that the same uniform succession had a like power in sounds . But because the effects of many things are clearer in one of the senses than another , and that all the senses bear ...
... uniform succession of great parts : we observed , too , that the same uniform succession had a like power in sounds . But because the effects of many things are clearer in one of the senses than another , and that all the senses bear ...
Page 186
... uniform parts in the same right line should be sublime , 1 and upon what principle this disposition is enabled to make a comparatively small quantity of matter produce a grander effect than a much larger quantity disposed in another ...
... uniform parts in the same right line should be sublime , 1 and upon what principle this disposition is enabled to make a comparatively small quantity of matter produce a grander effect than a much larger quantity disposed in another ...
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