The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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... pleased to dignify with the name of philos- ophy . If these are delivered in a specious manner , and in a style above the common , they cannot want a number of admirers of as much docility as can be wished for in disciples . To these ...
... pleased to dignify with the name of philos- ophy . If these are delivered in a specious manner , and in a style above the common , they cannot want a number of admirers of as much docility as can be wished for in disciples . To these ...
Page 5
... pleased me very much , though I do not know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata falsitas ( says he ) , in multis est probabilior , et sępe ra- tionibus vincit nudam veritatem . " In such cases the writer has a certain fire ...
... pleased me very much , though I do not know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata falsitas ( says he ) , in multis est probabilior , et sępe ra- tionibus vincit nudam veritatem . " In such cases the writer has a certain fire ...
Page 87
... pleased or displeased with the . images , from the same principle on which the sense is pleased or displeased with the realities ; and conse quently there must be just as close an agreement in the imaginations as in the senses of men ...
... pleased or displeased with the . images , from the same principle on which the sense is pleased or displeased with the realities ; and conse quently there must be just as close an agreement in the imaginations as in the senses of men ...
Page 88
... pleased . The mind of man has naturally a far greater alacrity and satisfac tion in tracing resemblances than in searching for dif ferences because by making resemblances we produce new images ; we unite , we create , we enlarge our ...
... pleased . The mind of man has naturally a far greater alacrity and satisfac tion in tracing resemblances than in searching for dif ferences because by making resemblances we produce new images ; we unite , we create , we enlarge our ...
Page 89
... pleased , because he sees something like a human figure ; and , entirely taken up with this likeness , he does not at all attend to its defects . No person , I believe , at the first time of seeing a piece of imitation ever did . Some ...
... pleased , because he sees something like a human figure ; and , entirely taken up with this likeness , he does not at all attend to its defects . No person , I believe , at the first time of seeing a piece of imitation ever did . Some ...
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