The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell & sons, 1889 |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... Passion caused by the Sublime 88 11. Terror ib . III . Obscurity 89 • Iv . Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with regard to the Passions 90 [ IV . ] The same subject continued -v . Power 91 94 VI . Privation -VII ...
... Passion caused by the Sublime 88 11. Terror ib . III . Obscurity 89 • Iv . Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with regard to the Passions 90 [ IV . ] The same subject continued -v . Power 91 94 VI . Privation -VII ...
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... Passion like Terror IX . Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime x . Unity , why requisite to Vastness XI . The artificial Infinite XII . The Vibrations must be similar XII . The Effects of Succession in visual objects ...
... Passion like Terror IX . Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime x . Unity , why requisite to Vastness XI . The artificial Infinite XII . The Vibrations must be similar XII . The Effects of Succession in visual objects ...
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... Passions 178 SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION 182 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION 185 THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS 306 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION • • 382 ...
... Passions 178 SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION 182 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION , INTITULED THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION 185 THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS 306 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION • • 382 ...
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... passions of mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and require some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the landmarks of science ...
... passions of mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and require some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the landmarks of science ...
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Page 74 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Page 476 - State, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 92 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 508 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 467 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Page 454 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is (let me say) of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Page 508 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution.
Page 468 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 507 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.