The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 92
... produce a passion like Terrour 266 IX . Why visual Objects of great dimensions are sublime 267 Χ . Unity , why requisite to Vastness 268 • XI . The artificial Infinite 270 XII . The Vibrations must be similar 272 XIII . The Effects of ...
... produce a passion like Terrour 266 IX . Why visual Objects of great dimensions are sublime 267 Χ . Unity , why requisite to Vastness 268 • XI . The artificial Infinite 270 XII . The Vibrations must be similar 272 XIII . The Effects of ...
Page 100
... produce different effects ; which would be highly absurd . Let us first consider this point in the sense of taste , and the rather as the faculty in question has taken its name from that sense . All men are agreed to call vine- gar sour ...
... produce different effects ; which would be highly absurd . Let us first consider this point in the sense of taste , and the rather as the faculty in question has taken its name from that sense . All men are agreed to call vine- gar sour ...
Page 103
... produces . Tobacco is the delight of Dutchmen , as it diffuses a torpor and pleasing stupefaction . Fermented spirits please our common people , because they banish care , and all consideration of future or present evils . All of these ...
... produces . Tobacco is the delight of Dutchmen , as it diffuses a torpor and pleasing stupefaction . Fermented spirits please our common people , because they banish care , and all consideration of future or present evils . All of these ...
Page 116
... produce different opinions upon every thing which is an object of the understanding , without inducing us to suppose that there are no settled principles of reason . And indeed on the whole one may observe , that there is rather less ...
... produce different opinions upon every thing which is an object of the understanding , without inducing us to suppose that there are no settled principles of reason . And indeed on the whole one may observe , that there is rather less ...
Page 138
... produce its effect . The object therefore of this mixed passion , which we call love , is the beauty of the sex . Men are carried to the sex in general , as it is the sex , and by the common law of nature ; but they are attached to ...
... produce its effect . The object therefore of this mixed passion , which we call love , is the beauty of the sex . Men are carried to the sex in general , as it is the sex , and by the common law of nature ; but they are attached to ...
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