The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain

View of the Miseries and Evils arising	1

I	95

1	98

II	103

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of	121

SECT PAGE	123

III	125

VI	132

Feeling Pain	200

PART III	203

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in Vegetables	205

Animals	210

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in the Human Species	212

Proportion further considered	220

Fitness not the cause of Beauty	223

The real Effects of Fitness	227

Of the Sublime	133

Of the Passions which belong to Society	134

The final cause of the Difference between the Passions belonging to Selfpreser vation and those which regard the Society of the Sexes	136

Of Beauty X	137

Society and Solitude	139

Sympathy Imitation and Ambition XIII Sympathy	140

The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others	142

Of the Effects of Tragedy XVI Imitation	144

Ambition	149

Recapitulation	150

The Conclusion	152

PART II	157

Terrour 136 137 139 140 ibid IV The same Subject continued V Power VI Privation VII Vastness VIII Infinity IX Succession and Uniformity	158

Obscurity	160

Of the Difference between Clearness	161

Unity why requisite to Vastness	182

SECT PAGE XIII Magnificence	187

The Vibrations must be similar	189

Light	190

Light in Building	192

XVL Colour considered as productive of the Sublime	193

Sound and Loudness	194

Suddenness	195

Intermitting	196

The Cries of Animals	197

Smell and Taste Bitters and Stenches	198

Title	The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke
Author	Edmund Burke
Publisher	C. and J. Rivington, 1815
Original from	The British Library
Digitized	2 Dec 2020

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The Recapitulation	230

Perfection not the cause of Beauty	231

How far the idea of Beauty may be applied to the Qualities of the Mind	232

plied to Virtue	234

The real Cause of Beauty	235

Beautiful Objects small	236

Smoothness	237

273	273

SECT PAGE XIV Lockes Opinion concerning Darkness considered	276

Darkness terrible in its own nature	278

Why Darkness is terrible	279

The Effects of Blackness	281

Th Effects of Blackness moderated	284

The physical Cause of Love	285

Why Smoothness is Beautiful	287

Sweetness its nature	288

Sweetness relaxing	291

Variation why beautiful	293

Concerning Smallness	295

Of Colour	299

PART V	301

The common Effect of Poetry not by raising Ideas of things	302

General Words before Ideas	305

The Effect of Words	306

raising Images	308

Poetry not strictly an imative art	316

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