The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1872 - Great Britain |
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... degrees . Show me any mischief produced by the madness or wickedness of theologians , and I will show you an hundred resulting from the ambition and villany of conquerors and statesmen . Show me an absurdity in religion , and I will 46 ...
... degrees . Show me any mischief produced by the madness or wickedness of theologians , and I will show you an hundred resulting from the ambition and villany of conquerors and statesmen . Show me an absurdity in religion , and I will 46 ...
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... degree , that nothing can be more in- determinate . All the natural powers in man , which I know , that are conversant about external objects , are the senses ; the imagination ; and the judgment . And first with regard to the senses ...
... degree , that nothing can be more in- determinate . All the natural powers in man , which I know , that are conversant about external objects , are the senses ; the imagination ; and the judgment . And first with regard to the senses ...
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... degrees , and by force of these associations . Thus opium is pleasing to Turks , on account of the agreeable delirium it produces . Tobacco is the delight of Dutchmen , as it diffuses a torpor and pleasing stupefaction . Fermented ...
... degrees , and by force of these associations . Thus opium is pleasing to Turks , on account of the agreeable delirium it produces . Tobacco is the delight of Dutchmen , as it diffuses a torpor and pleasing stupefaction . Fermented ...
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... degrees of their knowledge ; but there is something in common to the painter , the shoemaker , the anatomist , and the Turkish emperor , the pleasure arising from a natural object , so far as each perceives it justly imitated ; the ...
... degrees of their knowledge ; but there is something in common to the painter , the shoemaker , the anatomist , and the Turkish emperor , the pleasure arising from a natural object , so far as each perceives it justly imitated ; the ...
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... degree there is a difference , which arises from two causes principally ; either from a greater degree of natural sensibility , or from a closer and longer attention to the object . To illustrate this by the procedure of the senses , in ...
... degree there is a difference , which arises from two causes principally ; either from a greater degree of natural sensibility , or from a closer and longer attention to the object . To illustrate this by the procedure of the senses , in ...
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