The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 241
... unoperative ; or at most exerted to mollify the rigor and sternness of the terror , which is the natural concomitant of VOL . I. 16 greatness . Besides the extraordinary great in every species , ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL . 241.
... unoperative ; or at most exerted to mollify the rigor and sternness of the terror , which is the natural concomitant of VOL . I. 16 greatness . Besides the extraordinary great in every species , ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL . 241.
Page 250
Edmund Burke. These words , by having no application , ought to be unoperative ; but when words commonly sacred to great occasions are used , we are affected by them even without the occasions . When words which have been generally so ...
Edmund Burke. These words , by having no application , ought to be unoperative ; but when words commonly sacred to great occasions are used , we are affected by them even without the occasions . When words which have been generally so ...
Page 514
... unoperative act of Parliament , estimating the dig- nity of the crown at 800,000l . and confining it to that sum , adds to the number of obsolete statutes which load the shelves of libraries , without any sort of ad- vantage to the ...
... unoperative act of Parliament , estimating the dig- nity of the crown at 800,000l . and confining it to that sum , adds to the number of obsolete statutes which load the shelves of libraries , without any sort of ad- vantage to the ...
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