BOHNS STANDARD LIBRARY.

BURKE'S WORKS.

YOLL

Preliminary Volume to the Standard Library Edition of

Burke's Works.

LIFE

OY

THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE,

BY

JAMES PRIOR, ESQ.

FIFTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

With Fine Portrait.

Printed uniformly with the present Edition, to which it forms an

THE WORKS OF

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

EDMUND BURKE.

VOLUME I.

CONTAINING

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY.

AN ESSAY ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.

POLITICAL MISCELLANIES.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET

COVENT GARDF.N.

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

und Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial

Society

A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE

SJBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL; with an Introductory Discourse con-

cerning Taste

Introduction. On Taste

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Part I.

Sect. 1. Novelty

II. Pain and Pleasure

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

VII. Of the Sublime

vii. Of the Passions which belong to Society

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

XII. Sympathy

XIV. The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others

xv. Of the Effects of Tragedy

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