 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...things which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their own nature infinite. But the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many...produce the same effects as if they were really so. We are deceived in the like manner, if the parts of some large object are so continued to any indefinite... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1764 - 458 pages
...K can can become the objects of our fenfes that are really, and in their own nature in-finite. But the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many things, they feem to be infinite, and they produce the fame efrects as if they were really fo. We are deceived irr... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...things which can become the objects of our fenfes, that are really and in their own nature infinite. But the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many things, they feem to be infinite, and they produce the fame effects as if they were really fo. We are deceived in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...things which can become the objects of our fenfes, that are really and in their own nature infinite. But the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many things, they feem to be infinite, and they produce the fame effects as if they were really fo. We are deceived in.... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...things which can become the objects of our fenfes, that are really and in their own nature infinite. But the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many things, they feem to be infinite, and they produce the fame eflects as if they were really fo. We arc deceived in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...things which can become the objects of our fenfes, that are really and in their own nature infinite. But the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many things, they feem to be infinite, and they produce the fame effects as if they were really fo. We are deceived in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pages
...things which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their own nature infinite. But the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many...produce the same effects as if they were really so. We are deceived in'the like manner, if the parts of some large object are so continued to any indefinite... | |
 | George Tappen - 1806 - 336 pages
...says, " Besides " vastness of extent, infinity is another source of " the sublime ; that is to say, the eye not being " able to perceive the bounds of many things, they " appear to be infinite, and they produce the same " effect as if they were really so. Succession,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - 446 pages
...things which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their own nature infinite. But the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many...they seem to be infinite, and they produce the same effect as if they were really so. We are deceived in the like manner, if the parts of some large object... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their own nature infinite . but the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many...produce the same effects as if they were really so. We are deceived in the like manner, if the parts of some large object are so continued to any indefinite... | |
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Infinity has a tendency to fill the mind with that sort of delightful horror which is the most genuine effect and truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their own nature... 
