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 - 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.... | |
 | 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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