BOHN'S BRITISH CLASSICS.

BURKE'S WORKS.

Preliminary Volume to the Standard Library Edition of

Burke's Works.

LIFE

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THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE,

BY

JAMES PRIOR, ESQ.

FIFTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

With Fine Portrait.

Printed uniformly with the present Edition, to which it forms an
essential accompaniment Volume.

Price 3s. 6d.

THE WORKS OF

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

EDMUND BURKE.

VOLUME I.

CONTAINING

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY.

AN ESSAY ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.

POLITICAL MISCELLANIES.

LONDON:

BELL & DALDY, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

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CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

▲ VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY: or, a View of the Miseries

and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial

Society

A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE

SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL; with an Introductory Discourse con-

cerning Taste

II. Pain and Pleasure

III. The Difference between the Removal of Pain, and po-

sitive Pleasure

Iv. Of Delight and Pleasure, as opposed to each other

v. Joy and Grief

VI. Of the Passions which belong to Self-preservation

VII. Of the Sublime

ib.

VIII. Of the Passions which belong to Society

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IX. The final cause of the Difference between the Passions

belonging to Self-preservation, and those which regard the

Society of the Sexes

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XIV. The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others

xv. Of the Effects of Tragedy

ib.

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