The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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Page 52
... , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind ) , the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay , than they could have been 52 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... , ( uncertain even to the professors , an Egyptian darkness to the rest of mankind ) , the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay , than they could have been 52 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
Page 54
... darkness and uncertainty of your science . I never darkened it with absurd and contradictory notions , nor confounded it with chicane and sophistry . You have excluded me from any share in the conduct of my own cause ; the science was ...
... darkness and uncertainty of your science . I never darkened it with absurd and contradictory notions , nor confounded it with chicane and sophistry . You have excluded me from any share in the conduct of my own cause ; the science was ...
Page 77
... Darkness considered XV . Darkness Terrible in its own Nature • XVI . Why Darkness is Terrible XVII . The Effects of Blackness XVIII . The Effects of Blackness moderated . XIX . The Physical Cause of Love XX . Why Smoothness is Beautiful ...
... Darkness considered XV . Darkness Terrible in its own Nature • XVI . Why Darkness is Terrible XVII . The Effects of Blackness XVIII . The Effects of Blackness moderated . XIX . The Physical Cause of Love XX . Why Smoothness is Beautiful ...
Page 84
... darkness . Summer , when the earth is clad in green , when the heavens are serene and bright , is more agreeable than winter , when everything makes a different appearance . I never remember that any- thing beautiful , whether a man , a ...
... darkness . Summer , when the earth is clad in green , when the heavens are serene and bright , is more agreeable than winter , when everything makes a different appearance . I never remember that any- thing beautiful , whether a man , a ...
Page 93
... darkness and light , the shades of colors , all these are very easi- ly distinguished when the difference is any way con- siderable , but not when it is minute , for want of some.common measures , which perhaps may never come to be ...
... darkness and light , the shades of colors , all these are very easi- ly distinguished when the difference is any way con- siderable , but not when it is minute , for want of some.common measures , which perhaps may never come to be ...
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