The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... positive institu- tion , I shall call natural society . Thus far nature went and succeeded : but man would go farther . The great errour of our nature is , not to know where to stop , not to be satisfied with any reason- able ...
... positive institu- tion , I shall call natural society . Thus far nature went and succeeded : but man would go farther . The great errour of our nature is , not to know where to stop , not to be satisfied with any reason- able ...
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... positive institutions , or the neglect of some of his trivial forms , than against the neglect or breach of those duties and commandments of natural religion , which by these forms and institutions he pretends to enforce . The lawyer ...
... positive institutions , or the neglect of some of his trivial forms , than against the neglect or breach of those duties and commandments of natural religion , which by these forms and institutions he pretends to enforce . The lawyer ...
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... positive Pleasure 123 • 125 IV . Of Delight and Pleasure , as opposed to each other 128 • V. Joy and Grief 130 VI . preservation Of the Passions which belong to Self- VII . Of the Sublime 132 • 133 · · XII . Sympathy , Imitation , and ...
... positive Pleasure 123 • 125 IV . Of Delight and Pleasure , as opposed to each other 128 • V. Joy and Grief 130 VI . preservation Of the Passions which belong to Self- VII . Of the Sublime 132 • 133 · · XII . Sympathy , Imitation , and ...
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... positive nature , and by no means necessarily dependent on each other for their existence . The human mind is often , and I think it is for the most part , in a state neither of pain nor pleasure , which I call a state of indifference ...
... positive nature , and by no means necessarily dependent on each other for their existence . The human mind is often , and I think it is for the most part , in a state neither of pain nor pleasure , which I call a state of indifference ...
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... positive pains and pleasures , which do not at all depend upon each other . Nothing is more certain to my own feelings than this . There is nothing which I can distinguish in my mind with more clearness than the three states , of ...
... positive pains and pleasures , which do not at all depend upon each other . Nothing is more certain to my own feelings than this . There is nothing which I can distinguish in my mind with more clearness than the three states , of ...
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