No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime... The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 158by Edmund Burke - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1844 - 232 pages
...its highest degree ; the inferior effects are admiration, reverence, and respect. SECTION II. TERROR. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear ;f for fear beWhat is the passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...find you willing to admire, He ceased to urge, or win you to assent. TERROR A SOURCE OF THE SUBLIME. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its...it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. ^sVhatever therefore is terrible with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1856 - 238 pages
...its highest degree ; the inferior effects are admiration, reverence, and respect. SECTION II. TERROR. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear ;f for fear beWhat is the passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...ceased to urge, or win you to SDh'IliJOr Of stvlr- fcrfillti- nt I TERROR A SOURCE OF THE SUBLIME. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its...regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not ; for it is impossible to look on any thing as... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...them such. Burke, not less critical, but more polite, 111 at length, TERROR A SOURCE OF THE SUBLIME. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its...regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not ; for it is impossible to look on any thing as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...inferiour effects are admiration, reverence and respect. SECTION II. No passion so effectually rohs rs of the Gentoo religion. This ohject required a command of money ; a heing an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resemhles actual pain. Whatever... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...find you willing to admire, He ceased to urge, or win you to assent. TERROR A SOURCE OF THE SUBLIME. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its...Whatever therefore is terrible with regard to sight, is suWime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...beauty : Burke dlsplay'd A copious period, thnt with curious skill TERROR A SOURCE OF THE SUBLIME. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its...regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it Is impossible to look on any thing as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 572 pages
...its highest degree ; the inferior effects are admiration, reverence, and respect. SECTION II. TERROR. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear, f For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1865 - 578 pages
...its highest degree; the inferior effects are admiration, reverence, and respect. SECTION II. TERROR. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear, f For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain.... | |
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