THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... horrour beyond the histories perhaps of any other nation in the world : though the hif- tories of all nations are made up of fimilar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the ...
... horrour beyond the histories perhaps of any other nation in the world : though the hif- tories of all nations are made up of fimilar matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the ...
Page 49
... horrour , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , run- ning with a rage of folly into the fame mean and fenfeless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in ...
... horrour , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , run- ning with a rage of folly into the fame mean and fenfeless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in ...
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... horrour , which we have at home , is nothing to what the rest of the world affords of the fame nature . Mil- lions daily bathed in the poisonous damps and de- structive effluvia of lead , filver , copper , and arfe- nick . To say ...
... horrour , which we have at home , is nothing to what the rest of the world affords of the fame nature . Mil- lions daily bathed in the poisonous damps and de- structive effluvia of lead , filver , copper , and arfe- nick . To say ...
Page 126
... horrour . * Mr. Locke [ Effay on Human Understanding , 1. ii . c . 20 . fect . 16. ] thinks that the removal or lessening of a pain is con- fidered and operates as a pleasure , and the loss or diminishing of pleasure as a pain . It is ...
... horrour . * Mr. Locke [ Effay on Human Understanding , 1. ii . c . 20 . fect . 16. ] thinks that the removal or lessening of a pain is con- fidered and operates as a pleasure , and the loss or diminishing of pleasure as a pain . It is ...
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... of the fea remains after the storm ; and when this re- main of horrour has entirely subsided , all the paf- fion , which the accident raised , subsides along with it ; and the mind returns to its usual with AND BEAUTIFUL . 127.
... of the fea remains after the storm ; and when this re- main of horrour has entirely subsided , all the paf- fion , which the accident raised , subsides along with it ; and the mind returns to its usual with AND BEAUTIFUL . 127.
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