The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... horrour beyond the histories perhaps of any other nation in the world : though the his- tories of all nations are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the ...
... horrour beyond the histories perhaps of any other nation in the world : though the his- tories of all nations are made up of similar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the ...
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... horrour , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in their ...
... horrour , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in their ...
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... horrour , which we have at home , is nothing to what the rest of the world affords of the same nature . Mil- lions daily bathed in the poisonous damps and destructive effluvia of lead , silver , copper , and arse- nick . To say nothing ...
... horrour , which we have at home , is nothing to what the rest of the world affords of the same nature . Mil- lions daily bathed in the poisonous damps and destructive effluvia of lead , silver , copper , and arse- nick . To say nothing ...
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... pain is considered and operates as a pleasure , and the loss or dimi- nishing of pleasure as a pain . It is this opinion which we consider here . www in a sort of tranquillity shadowed with horrour . The 126 ON THE SUBLIME.
... pain is considered and operates as a pleasure , and the loss or dimi- nishing of pleasure as a pain . It is this opinion which we consider here . www in a sort of tranquillity shadowed with horrour . The 126 ON THE SUBLIME.
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Edmund Burke. in a sort of tranquillity shadowed with horrour . The fashion of the countenance and the gesture ... horrour has entirely subsided , all the passion , which the accident raised , subsides along with it ; and the mind ...
Edmund Burke. in a sort of tranquillity shadowed with horrour . The fashion of the countenance and the gesture ... horrour has entirely subsided , all the passion , which the accident raised , subsides along with it ; and the mind ...
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