BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY

BURKE'S WORKS

VOL. I.

GEORGE BELL & SONS

LONDON: YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN NEW YORK: 66 FIFTH AVENUE, AND

CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & CO.

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

1902

[Reprinted from Stereotype plates.]

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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

A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE Origin of our Ideas of the

SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL; with an Introductory Discourse con-

cerning Taste

CORE/DX

SECT. I. Novelty

II. Pain and Pleasure

III. 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

IX. The final cause of the Difference between the Passions

belonging to Self-preservation, and those which regard the

ib.

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XII. Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition

XIII. Sympathy

XIV. The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others

xv. Of the Effects of Tragedy