THE WORKS

OF

EDMUND BURKE.

VOL. I.

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY.

AN ESSAY ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.
POLITICAL MISCELLANIES.

LONDON

GEORGE BELL & SONS

1909

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY: or, a View of the Miseries

and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial

Society

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A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE

SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL; with an Introductory Discourse con-

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111. The Difference between the Removal of Pain, and po-

sitive Pleasure

Iv. Of Delight and Pleasure, as opposed to each other

v. Joy and Grief

VI. Of the Passions which belong to Self-preservation

Ix. The final cause of the Difference between the Passions

belonging to Self-preservation, and those which regard the

Society of the Sexes

x. Of Beauty

XI. Society and Solitude

XII. Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition

XIII. Sympathy

XIV. The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others

xv. Of the Effects of Tragedy

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IV. Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with

ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART III,

SECT. 1. Of Beauty

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II. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables

114

III. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals

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IV. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human

Species

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