The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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Page 28
... present experience ; and you will find that far the greater part of the quarrels between several nations had scarce any other occasion than that these nations were different combinations of peo- ple , and called by different names : to ...
... present experience ; and you will find that far the greater part of the quarrels between several nations had scarce any other occasion than that these nations were different combinations of peo- ple , and called by different names : to ...
Page 66
... present age , with our present passions , can possibly pretend to . For my part , I quit it without a sigh , and submit to the sovereign order without murmuring . The nearer we approach to the goal of life , the better we begin to ...
... present age , with our present passions , can possibly pretend to . For my part , I quit it without a sigh , and submit to the sovereign order without murmuring . The nearer we approach to the goal of life , the better we begin to ...
Page 80
... present , to make this point as clear as possible ; for if taste has no fixed principles , if the imagination is not affected ac- cording to some invariable and certain laws , our la- bor is likely to be employed to very little purpose ...
... present , to make this point as clear as possible ; for if taste has no fixed principles , if the imagination is not affected ac- cording to some invariable and certain laws , our la- bor is likely to be employed to very little purpose ...
Page 82
... present to different men different images of things , this scep- tical proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning itself which had persuaded us to entertain a doubt ...
... present to different men different images of things , this scep- tical proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning itself which had persuaded us to entertain a doubt ...
Page 85
... present themselves to the palate as they do to the sight ; they are generally applied to it , either as food or as medicine ; and from the qualities which they possess for nutritive or medicinal purposes they often form the palate by ...
... present themselves to the palate as they do to the sight ; they are generally applied to it , either as food or as medicine ; and from the qualities which they possess for nutritive or medicinal purposes they often form the palate by ...
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