The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... fear assented to by some wiser and better men ; it is this : They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices , because , say they , though they would be found without any reasonable support ; yet the discovery might be ...
... fear assented to by some wiser and better men ; it is this : They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices , because , say they , though they would be found without any reasonable support ; yet the discovery might be ...
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... fear , he proceeds to the most horrid and shocking outrages upon mankind . Their persons become victims of his suspicions . The slightest displeasure is death ; and a disagreeable aspect is often as great a crime . as high treason . In ...
... fear , he proceeds to the most horrid and shocking outrages upon mankind . Their persons become victims of his suspicions . The slightest displeasure is death ; and a disagreeable aspect is often as great a crime . as high treason . In ...
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... fear . In this kind of government , human nature is not only abused , and insulted , but it is actually degraded and sunk into a species of brutality . The consideration of this made Mr. Locke say , with D 4 great great justice , that a ...
... fear . In this kind of government , human nature is not only abused , and insulted , but it is actually degraded and sunk into a species of brutality . The consideration of this made Mr. Locke say , with D 4 great great justice , that a ...
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... fear or prejudice , examine this last contri- vance of policy . And without considering how near the quick our instruments may come , let us search it to the bottom . First then , all men are agreed that this junc- tion of regal ...
... fear or prejudice , examine this last contri- vance of policy . And without considering how near the quick our instruments may come , let us search it to the bottom . First then , all men are agreed that this junc- tion of regal ...
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... fear and jealousy . No part of the mind has rest . Power gradually extirpates from the mind , every humane and gentle virtue , Pity , benevolence , friendship , are things almost unknown in high stations . Vera amicitię rarissime ...
... fear and jealousy . No part of the mind has rest . Power gradually extirpates from the mind , every humane and gentle virtue , Pity , benevolence , friendship , are things almost unknown in high stations . Vera amicitię rarissime ...
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Page 161 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 248 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 187 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 166 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 141 - IT is by the first of these passions that we enter into the concerns of others; that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost any thing which men can do or suffer.
Page 158 - No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror, be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on any thing as trifling, or contemptible, that may be dangerous.
Page 165 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 174 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
Page 171 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free ? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass ? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 317 - This idea or this affection caused by a word, which nothing but a word could annex to the others, raises a very great degree of the sublime ; and this sublime is raised yet .higher by what follows, a "universe of Death.