THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... fenfe of taste , and the ra- ther as the faculty in question has taken its name from that sense . All men are agreed to call vine- gar four , honey sweet , and aloes bitter ; and as they are all agreed in finding these qualities in ...
... fenfe of taste , and the ra- ther as the faculty in question has taken its name from that sense . All men are agreed to call vine- gar four , honey sweet , and aloes bitter ; and as they are all agreed in finding these qualities in ...
Page 114
... fenfe , of the secondary pleasures of the imagi- nation , and of the conclufions of the reasoning fa- culty , concerning the various relations of these , and concerning the human paffions , manners , and actions . All this is requisite ...
... fenfe , of the secondary pleasures of the imagi- nation , and of the conclufions of the reasoning fa- culty , concerning the various relations of these , and concerning the human paffions , manners , and actions . All this is requisite ...
Page 138
... fenfe of joy and pleasure in beholding them ( and there are many that do so ) , they inspire us with fenti- ments of tenderness and affection towards their perfons ; we like to have them near us , and we enter willingly into a kind of ...
... fenfe of joy and pleasure in beholding them ( and there are many that do so ) , they inspire us with fenti- ments of tenderness and affection towards their perfons ; we like to have them near us , and we enter willingly into a kind of ...
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... fenfe of affec- tion and tenderness , or fome other paffion the most nearly resembling these . The passion of love has its rise in positive pleasure ; it is , like all things which grow out of pleasure , capable of being mixed with a ...
... fenfe of affec- tion and tenderness , or fome other paffion the most nearly resembling these . The passion of love has its rise in positive pleasure ; it is , like all things which grow out of pleasure , capable of being mixed with a ...
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... fenfe , when we push our discoveries yet downward , and confider those creatures fo many degrees yet smaller , and the still diminishing fcale of existence , in tracing which the imagina- tion is loft as well as the sense , we become ...
... fenfe , when we push our discoveries yet downward , and confider those creatures fo many degrees yet smaller , and the still diminishing fcale of existence , in tracing which the imagina- tion is loft as well as the sense , we become ...
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