The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 110
... perceives it justly imitated ; the satisfaction in seeing an agreeable figure ; the sympathy proceeding from a striking and affecting incident . So far as taste is natural , it is nearly common to all . In poetry , and other pieces of ...
... perceives it justly imitated ; the satisfaction in seeing an agreeable figure ; the sympathy proceeding from a striking and affecting incident . So far as taste is natural , it is nearly common to all . In poetry , and other pieces of ...
Page 112
... perceive it to be smooth , and they are both pleased with it because of this quality . So far they agree . But suppose another , and after that another table , the latter still smoother than the former , to be set before them . It is ...
... perceive it to be smooth , and they are both pleased with it because of this quality . So far they agree . But suppose another , and after that another table , the latter still smoother than the former , to be set before them . It is ...
Page 118
... perceive the defects . But as the arts advance towards their perfection , the science of criticism advances with equal pace , and the pleasure of judges is frequently interrupted interrupted by the faults which are discovered in the ...
... perceive the defects . But as the arts advance towards their perfection , the science of criticism advances with equal pace , and the pleasure of judges is frequently interrupted interrupted by the faults which are discovered in the ...
Page 125
... perceive without any sort of idea of its relation to any thing else . Caius is afflicted with a fit of the cholick ; this man is actually in pain ; stretch Caius upon the rack , he will feel a much greater pain : but does this pain of ...
... perceive without any sort of idea of its relation to any thing else . Caius is afflicted with a fit of the cholick ; this man is actually in pain ; stretch Caius upon the rack , he will feel a much greater pain : but does this pain of ...
Page 139
... perceive distinctly what it is , as his wisdom is not our wis- dom , nor our ways his ways . SECT . XI . SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE . THE second branch of the social passions is that which administers to society in general . With regard to ...
... perceive distinctly what it is , as his wisdom is not our wis- dom , nor our ways his ways . SECT . XI . SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE . THE second branch of the social passions is that which administers to society in general . With regard to ...
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