The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... original children of the earth lived with their brethren of the other kinds in much equality . Their diet must have been confined almost wholly to the vegetable kind ; and the same tree , which in its flourishing state produced them ...
... original children of the earth lived with their brethren of the other kinds in much equality . Their diet must have been confined almost wholly to the vegetable kind ; and the same tree , which in its flourishing state produced them ...
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... originals I could copy such pictures . Happy are they who know enough of them to know the little value of the possessors of such things , and of all that they possess ; and happy they who have been snatched from that post of danger ...
... originals I could copy such pictures . Happy are they who know enough of them to know the little value of the possessors of such things , and of all that they possess ; and happy they who have been snatched from that post of danger ...
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... original natural causes of pleasure , to enable them to bring all things offered to their senses to that standard , and to regulate their feelings and opinions by it . Suppose one who had so vitiated his palate as to take more pleasure ...
... original natural causes of pleasure , to enable them to bring all things offered to their senses to that standard , and to regulate their feelings and opinions by it . Suppose one who had so vitiated his palate as to take more pleasure ...
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... original natural impression , must have the same power pretty equally over all men . For since the imagination is only the repre- sentation of the senses , it can only be pleased or displeased with the images , from the same principle ...
... original natural impression , must have the same power pretty equally over all men . For since the imagination is only the repre- sentation of the senses , it can only be pleased or displeased with the images , from the same principle ...
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... originals of all our ideas , and consequently of all our pleasures , if they are not uncertain and arbitrary , the whole ground - work of taste is common to all , and therefore there is a sufficient foundation for a conclusive reasoning ...
... originals of all our ideas , and consequently of all our pleasures , if they are not uncertain and arbitrary , the whole ground - work of taste is common to all , and therefore there is a sufficient foundation for a conclusive reasoning ...
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