THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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Page 55
... cafe is worse ; their passions are less under the government of reason , they are augmented by the contagion , and defended against all attacks by their multitude . I have purposely avoided the mention of the mixed form of government ...
... cafe is worse ; their passions are less under the government of reason , they are augmented by the contagion , and defended against all attacks by their multitude . I have purposely avoided the mention of the mixed form of government ...
Page 57
... cafe , the close- ness acquired by community , instead of serving for mutual defence , ferves only to increase the danger . Such a system is like a city , where trades that require constant fires are much exercifed , where the houses ...
... cafe , the close- ness acquired by community , instead of serving for mutual defence , ferves only to increase the danger . Such a system is like a city , where trades that require constant fires are much exercifed , where the houses ...
Page 66
... cafe of a man's life ; there the determi- nation can hardly be too much protracted . Miftakes in this cafe are as often fallen into as many other , and if the judgment is fudden , the mistakes are the most irretrievable of all others ...
... cafe of a man's life ; there the determi- nation can hardly be too much protracted . Miftakes in this cafe are as often fallen into as many other , and if the judgment is fudden , the mistakes are the most irretrievable of all others ...
Page 105
... cafe . But in the imagination , befides the pain or plea- fure arifing from the properties of the natural ob- ject , a pleasure is perceived from the resemblance , which the imitation has to the original : the imagi- nation , I conceive ...
... cafe . But in the imagination , befides the pain or plea- fure arifing from the properties of the natural ob- ject , a pleasure is perceived from the resemblance , which the imitation has to the original : the imagi- nation , I conceive ...
Page 113
... cafes , supposing the acuteness of the sense equal , the greater attention and habit in such things will have the advantage . In the question about the tables , the marble - polisher will unquestionably de- termine the most accurately ...
... cafes , supposing the acuteness of the sense equal , the greater attention and habit in such things will have the advantage . In the question about the tables , the marble - polisher will unquestionably de- termine the most accurately ...
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