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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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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 574 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. fFor fenr being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain....
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 574 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 fenr. f For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual...
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