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" 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 158
by Edmund Burke - 1815
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...his son (Prince Henry) and the English nobles. The phrase "cold comfort" was already current. Fear 1 No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. EDMUND BURKE, (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman. The Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and...
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The Miracle of Change

Dennis Wholey - Political Science - 1998 - 308 pages
...knocking on my door, but I do not have to let him into my home. —John K. C5X3 No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — EDMUND BURKE CSVD Some years ago, Dr. Lonnie MacDonald introduced me to a painting called "The...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinlon. 1784 On the Sublime and Beautiful No passlon Murder in the Cathedral Clean the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take the 1785 On the Sublime and Beautiful Custom reconciles us to everything. 1786 Third Letter...on the Proposals...
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Seeing Into the Life of Things: Essays on Literature and Religious Experience

John L. Mahoney - Literary Collections - 1998 - 388 pages
...follows Burke's formula of locating the source of the sublime in the terrible, inducing a fear "which effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning. . . ." See Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the...
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Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History

Fritz Richard Stern - History - 1999 - 366 pages
...Mandelstam's outcry: "Silence is the real crime against humanity."31 NATIONAL SOCIALISM AS TEMPTATION 'Wo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers...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...
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The Effective Strategist: Key Skills for All Managers

John Van Maurik - Business & Economics - 1999 - 172 pages
...and immobilized as the threat bears down on them. As Edmund Burke said, 'No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.' So how do you ensure that people are motivated in the right way and to the right degree by the changes...
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Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala

Linda Green - History - 1999 - 254 pages
...emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule. — Walter Benjamin No power so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear — To make anything terrible, obscurity seems to be necessary. — William Burke People want the right...
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Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820

Emma Clery, Robert Miles - Fiction - 2000 - 322 pages
...in its highest degree; the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect. TERROR (II. ii) operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever...regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror, be endured with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on any thing as...
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Thrive on Stress: Manage Pressure and Positively Thrive on It!

Jan Sutton - Reference - 2000 - 196 pages
...wrong ones. We can never take words back. 4. Suppressed aggression becomes depression. CONQUERING FEAR No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. (Edmund Burke) Nobody goes through life without any fears, because living itself is a risky business,...
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Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem

Steven E. Aschheim - Philosophy - 2001 - 452 pages
...it a place in aesthetics alongside that of the beautiful as a "positive pain" that gives enjoyment. 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...
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