Life of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke. A vindication of natural society, in a letter to Lord ****. A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful

T. M'Lean, Haymarket, 1823 - Great Britain

CONTENTS	i

Fitness not the cause of Beauty	vi

Of the Sublime	vii

The Recapitulation	viii

Perfection not the cause of Beauty	ix

How far the idea of Beauty may be applied to the Qualities of the mind	x

How far the idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue	xi

The real cause of Beauty	xii

Of Colour	lxxxii

PAGE	xciii

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin	89

Of the difference between Clearness	167

Vastness	173

Light in Building	198

Smell and Taste Bitters and Stenches	204

Animals	212

Sympathy	xiii

Smoothness	xiv

Gradual Variation	xv

Delicacy	xvi

Beauty in Colour	xvii

Recapitulation	xviii

The Physiognomy	xix

The	xx

Ugliness	xxi

Grace	xxii

Elegance and Speciousness	xxiii

The Beautiful in Feeling	xxiv

The Beautiful in Sound	xxv

Taste and Smell	xxvi

A Vindication of Natural Society in a Letter	xxxix

Recapitulation	248

The Sublime and Beautiful compared	258

PART IV	261

Association III Cause of Pain and Fear IV Continued	263

How Pain can be a cause of Delight	270

Exercise necessary for the finer Organs	271

Why things not dangerous sometimes pro duce a passion like Terror	272

Of Words	309

The common Effect of Poetry not by raising Ideas of things	310

General Words before Ideas	313

The effect of Words	314

317	317

Poetry not strictly an imitative	324

How Words influence the Passions	325

Title	Life of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke. A vindication of natural society, in a letter to Lord ***. A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful Volume 1 of The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With a Portrait, and Life of the Author*, Edmund Burke
Author	Edmund Burke
Publisher	T. M'Lean, Haymarket, 1823
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	8 Apr 2011

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