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... those which compose the class of the Beautiful have the same consistency with themselves, and the same opposition to those which are classed under the denomination of Sublime, I am in little pain whether anybody chooses to follow the name.
... those which compose the class of the Beautiful have the same consistency with themselves, and the same opposition to those which are classed under the denomination of Sublime, I am in little pain whether anybody chooses to follow the name.
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Edmund Burke. in little pain whether anybody chooses to follow the name I give them or not, provided he allows that ... pains I have taken in it. The use of such inquiries may be very considerable. Whatever turns the soul inward on itself ...
Edmund Burke. in little pain whether anybody chooses to follow the name I give them or not, provided he allows that ... pains I have taken in it. The use of such inquiries may be very considerable. Whatever turns the soul inward on itself ...
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... pain. They all concur in calling sweetness pleasant, and sourness and bitterness unpleasant. Here there is no ... pains which belong to these several tastes; but then the power of distinguishing between the natural and the acquired ...
... pain. They all concur in calling sweetness pleasant, and sourness and bitterness unpleasant. Here there is no ... pains which belong to these several tastes; but then the power of distinguishing between the natural and the acquired ...
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... pain some particular man may find from the taste of some particular thing. This indeed cannot be disputed; but we may dispute, and with sufficient clearness too, concerning the things which are naturally pleasing or disagreeable to the ...
... pain some particular man may find from the taste of some particular thing. This indeed cannot be disputed; but we may dispute, and with sufficient clearness too, concerning the things which are naturally pleasing or disagreeable to the ...
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... pain, as it is the region of our fears and our hopes, and of all our passions that are connected with them; and whatever is calculated to affect the imagination with these commanding ideas, by force of any original natural impression ...
... pain, as it is the region of our fears and our hopes, and of all our passions that are connected with them; and whatever is calculated to affect the imagination with these commanding ideas, by force of any original natural impression ...
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