The Works of Edmund BurkeРипол Классик, 1887 |
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... danger of letting the 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 ...
... danger of letting the 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 ...
Strana 7
... dangerous; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions; and that, to know whether any proposition be true or false, it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences. These were the reasons which ...
... dangerous; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions; and that, to know whether any proposition be true or false, it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences. These were the reasons which ...
Strana 9
... dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion! as if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue, which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth; that is, _ upon the knowledge of those unalterable ...
... dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion! as if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue, which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth; that is, _ upon the knowledge of those unalterable ...
Strana 11
... danger: the mutual return of kindness and civility, would afford a very ample and very pleasing subject for history. But, alas! all the history of all times, concerning all nations, does not afl'ord matter enough to fill ten pages ...
... danger: the mutual return of kindness and civility, would afford a very ample and very pleasing subject for history. But, alas! all the history of all times, concerning all nations, does not afl'ord matter enough to fill ten pages ...
Strana 26
... dangerous, as an aspiring quality, that claims an esteem by itself, and independent of the countenance of the court What has been said of the chief, is true of the inferior officers of this species of government; each in his province ...
... dangerous, as an aspiring quality, that claims an esteem by itself, and independent of the countenance of the court What has been said of the chief, is true of the inferior officers of this species of government; each in his province ...
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Imitation | 91 |
Cause of Pain and Fear | 165 |
How the Sublime is produced | 167 |
Exercise necessary for the finer Organs | 169 |
Why visual objects of great dimensions are Sublime | 170 |
Unity why requisite to Vastness | 171 |
The artificial Infinite | 172 |
The vibrations must be similar | 173 |
The effects of succession in visual objects explained | 174 |
ésssééss | 95 |
The same subject continued | 101 |
Privation | 112 |
Light | 119 |
PART III | 127 |
Beautiful objects small | 148 |
Smoothness | 150 |
Delicacy | 152 |
Beauty in color | 153 |
XVIH Recapitulation ib XIX The Physiognomy | 155 |
Grace | 156 |
Elegance and Speciousness ib XXIV The Beautiful in Feeling | 157 |
Taste and Smell | 160 |
PART IV | 162 |
Association | 164 |
Lockes opinion concerning Darkness considered | 176 |
Darkness terrible in its own nature | 177 |
Why darkness is terrible | 178 |
The effects of Blackness | 181 |
The physical cause of Love | 182 |
Why Smoothness is Beautiful | 183 |
Sweetness its nature | 184 |
Sweetness relaxing | 186 |
Variation why beautiful I | 187 |
PART V | 193 |
Poetry not strictly an imitative Art | 202 |
A Short Account of a late Short Administration | 207 |
theNation 211 | 327 |
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents | 347 |
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