The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... faculty , concerning the various relations of these , and concerning the human passions , manners , and actions . All this is requisite to form taste , and the ground - work of all these is the same in the human mind ; for as the senses ...
... faculty , concerning the various relations of these , and concerning the human passions , manners , and actions . All this is requisite to form taste , and the ground - work of all these is the same in the human mind ; for as the senses ...
Page 116
... faculty may consist ) , or , which is much more commonly the case , it may arise from a want of a proper and well - directed exercise , which alone can make it strong and ready . Besides that ignorance , inattention , prejudice ...
... faculty may consist ) , or , which is much more commonly the case , it may arise from a want of a proper and well - directed exercise , which alone can make it strong and ready . Besides that ignorance , inattention , prejudice ...
Page 119
... faculty of the mind , and distinct from the judgment and imagi- nation ; a species of instinct , by which we are struck naturally , and at the first glance , without any previous reasoning , with the excellencies , or the defects , of a ...
... faculty of the mind , and distinct from the judgment and imagi- nation ; a species of instinct , by which we are struck naturally , and at the first glance , without any previous reasoning , with the excellencies , or the defects , of a ...
Page 120
... faculty . Nobody , I believe , has attended the course of a discussion , which turned upon matters within the sphere of mere naked reason , but must have observed the extreme readiness with which the whole process of the argument is ...
... faculty . Nobody , I believe , has attended the course of a discussion , which turned upon matters within the sphere of mere naked reason , but must have observed the extreme readiness with which the whole process of the argument is ...
Page 141
... from the mechanical structure of our bodies , or from the natural frame and constitution of our minds , to certain conclusions of the reasoning faculty faculty on the objects presented to us ; for I AND BEAUTIFUL . 141.
... from the mechanical structure of our bodies , or from the natural frame and constitution of our minds , to certain conclusions of the reasoning faculty faculty on the objects presented to us ; for I AND BEAUTIFUL . 141.
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