The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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Page 110
... perceives it justly imitated ; the satisfaction in seeing an agreeable figure ; the sympathy proceeding from a striking and affecting incident . So far as taste is natural , it is nearly common to all . In poetry , and other pieces of ...
... perceives it justly imitated ; the satisfaction in seeing an agreeable figure ; the sympathy proceeding from a striking and affecting incident . So far as taste is natural , it is nearly common to all . In poetry , and other pieces of ...
Page 112
... perceive it to be smooth , and they are both pleased with it because of this quality . So far they agree . But suppose another , and after that another table , the latter still smoother than the former , to be set before them . It is ...
... perceive it to be smooth , and they are both pleased with it because of this quality . So far they agree . But suppose another , and after that another table , the latter still smoother than the former , to be set before them . It is ...
Page 118
... perceive the defects . But as the arts advance towards their per- fection , the science of criticism advances with equal pace , and the pleasure of judges is frequently interrupted 1 interrupted by the faults which are discovered in the ...
... perceive the defects . But as the arts advance towards their per- fection , the science of criticism advances with equal pace , and the pleasure of judges is frequently interrupted 1 interrupted by the faults which are discovered in the ...
Page 125
... perceive without any sort of idea of its relation to any thing else . Caius is afflicted with a fit of the cholick ; this man is actually in pain ; stretch Caius upon the rack , he will feel a much greater pain : but does this pain of ...
... perceive without any sort of idea of its relation to any thing else . Caius is afflicted with a fit of the cholick ; this man is actually in pain ; stretch Caius upon the rack , he will feel a much greater pain : but does this pain of ...
Page 139
... perceive dis- tinctly what it is , as his wisdom is not our wisdom , nor our ways his ways . SECT . XI . SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE . THE second branch of the social passions is that which administers to society in general . With regard to ...
... perceive dis- tinctly what it is , as his wisdom is not our wisdom , nor our ways his ways . SECT . XI . SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE . THE second branch of the social passions is that which administers to society in general . With regard to ...
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