The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 96
... faculty , and it is so much strengthened by perpetual contention , that certain maxims of right reason seem to be tacitly settled amongst the most ignorant . The learned have improved on this rude science , and reduced those maxims into ...
... faculty , and it is so much strengthened by perpetual contention , that certain maxims of right reason seem to be tacitly settled amongst the most ignorant . The learned have improved on this rude science , and reduced those maxims into ...
Page 98
... faculty or those faculties of the mind , which are affected with , or which form a judgment of , the works of imagination and the elegant arts . This is , I think , the most general idea of that word , and what is the least connected ...
... faculty or those faculties of the mind , which are affected with , or which form a judgment of , the works of imagination and the elegant arts . This is , I think , the most general idea of that word , and what is the least connected ...
Page 100
... faculty in question has taken its name from that sense . All men are agreed to call vine- gar sour , honey sweet , and aloes bitter ; and as they are all agreed in finding these qualities in those objects , they do not in the least ...
... faculty in question has taken its name from that sense . All men are agreed to call vine- gar sour , honey sweet , and aloes bitter ; and as they are all agreed in finding these qualities in those objects , they do not in the least ...
Page 106
... faculty of comparing . But in reality , whether they are or are not dependent on the same power of the mind , they differ so very materially in many respects , that a perfect union of wit and judgment is one of the rarest things in the ...
... faculty of comparing . But in reality , whether they are or are not dependent on the same power of the mind , they differ so very materially in many respects , that a perfect union of wit and judgment is one of the rarest things in the ...
Page 107
... and observation , and not on the strength or weak- ness of any natural faculty ; and it is from this difference in knowledge , that what we commonly , though though with no great exactness , call a difference in ON TASTE . 107.
... and observation , and not on the strength or weak- ness of any natural faculty ; and it is from this difference in knowledge , that what we commonly , though though with no great exactness , call a difference in ON TASTE . 107.
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