The Works of Edmund Burke, with a Memoir, Zväzok 1Harper & Brothers, 1849 |
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Strana iv
... imagination meets no check to hinder its extending them at pleasure . Having examined extension , the author proceeds to consider Light and Colours . He observes that in general , Darkness is a more sublime idea than Light , because the ...
... imagination meets no check to hinder its extending them at pleasure . Having examined extension , the author proceeds to consider Light and Colours . He observes that in general , Darkness is a more sublime idea than Light , because the ...
Strana xxi
... imagination of statesmen . At the age of twenty , I thought that all abstract rights , natural rights , and such nonsense , were unfit for men to hear ; and now , that my hair is silvered by age , I am more and more confirmed in my ...
... imagination of statesmen . At the age of twenty , I thought that all abstract rights , natural rights , and such nonsense , were unfit for men to hear ; and now , that my hair is silvered by age , I am more and more confirmed in my ...
Strana 11
... imagination , but which neither belongs to , nor becomes the sober aspect of truth . I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's reports that pleased me very much , though I do not . know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata ...
... imagination , but which neither belongs to , nor becomes the sober aspect of truth . I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's reports that pleased me very much , though I do not . know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata ...
Strana 12
... imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack every thing the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the divine fabrics by our ...
... imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack every thing the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the divine fabrics by our ...
Strana 14
... imaginations promise . In such a discussion , far am I from proposing in the least to reflect on our most wise form of go- vernment ; no more than I would in the freer parts of my philosophical writings mean to object to the piety ...
... imaginations promise . In such a discussion , far am I from proposing in the least to reflect on our most wise form of go- vernment ; no more than I would in the freer parts of my philosophical writings mean to object to the piety ...
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