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" 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. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 141
by Edmund Burke - 1815
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...almoft any thing which men can do or fuflfer. For fympathy muft be conildered as a fort of fubftitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many refpects as he is affected; fo that this pafr fion may either partake of $he nature of thofe which...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...almoft any thing which men can do or fuffer. For fympathy muft be confidered as a fort of fubftitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many relpects as he is affected: fo that this paffion may either partake of the nature of thofe which regard...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...almoft any thing which men can do or fuffer. For fympathy muft be confidered as a fort of fubftitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many relpects as he is affected : fo that this paffion may either partake of the nature of thofe which regard...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...almoft any thing which men can doorfuffer. For lympathy mull be confidered as a fort of fubflitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affcfted in a good meafure as he is aíTefted; fothat this paflion may either partake of the nature...
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Medical Extracts: On the Nature of Health, with Practical ..., Volume 4

1797 - 332 pages
...almoft any thing which men can do or fuifer. For fympathy muft be confidered as a fort of fubflitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and nffected in many refpe6ts as he is affected. It is by this principle chiefly that poetry, painting,...
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An Appeal to the Loyal Citizens of Dublin

Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 1800 - 674 pages
...almoft any thing which men can do or fuffer. For fympathy muft be confidered as a fort of fubftitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affe&ed in many refpefts as he is affefted : fo that this paffion may either partake of the nature...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 366 pages
...any thing which men can do or fuffer. For fympathy muft be confidercd as as a fort of fubftitution, by which we are put Into the place of another man, and affected in ftiany refpecis as he is affected : fo that this paffion may either partake of the nature of thofe...
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Prose

Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...which; men can dp or fufler,. For fympathy muft mult he confidered as a fort of fubftitu- others tion, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in a good roeafure as he is affected ; fo that this paffion may either partake of the nature of thofe...
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A philosophical enquiry [&c.].

Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...indifferent spectators of almost any thing which men can do or suffer. For sympathy must be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into...either partake of the nature of those which regard self-preaervation, and, turning upon pain, may be a source of the sublime ; or it may turn upon ideas...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...indifferent spectatorsof almost any thing whichmen can do or suffer. For sympathy must be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into...which regard self-preservation, and turning upon pain maybe a source of the sublime ; or it may turn upon ideas of pleasure ; and then whatever has been...
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