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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... necessary for the finer Organs VIII . Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror 148 149 IX . Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime x . Unity , why requisite to Vastness ib . 150 • XI . The artificial ...
... necessary for the finer Organs VIII . Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror 148 149 IX . Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime x . Unity , why requisite to Vastness ib . 150 • XI . The artificial ...
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... necessary , or even useful to our well - being , we shall in spite of us draw in , as a necessary , though undesirable consequence , an artificial religion of some kind or other . To this the vulgar will always be voluntary slaves ; and ...
... necessary , or even useful to our well - being , we shall in spite of us draw in , as a necessary , though undesirable consequence , an artificial religion of some kind or other . To this the vulgar will always be voluntary slaves ; and ...
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... necessary to make very exact calculations ; nor is it necessary to give more than hints to one of your Lordship's erudition . You will recollect his uninterrupted series of success . You will run over his battles . You will call to mind ...
... necessary to make very exact calculations ; nor is it necessary to give more than hints to one of your Lordship's erudition . You will recollect his uninterrupted series of success . You will run over his battles . You will call to mind ...
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... necessary , or even expedient , in any case whatsoever , to do , what the best and worthiest instincts of mankind warn us to avoid . But no wonder , that what is set up in opposition to the state of nature should preserve itself by ...
... necessary , or even expedient , in any case whatsoever , to do , what the best and worthiest instincts of mankind warn us to avoid . But no wonder , that what is set up in opposition to the state of nature should preserve itself by ...
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... necessary purposes of the state . When you see the people of this republic banishing and murdering their best and ablest citizens , dissipating the public treasure with the most senseless extravagance , and spending their whole time ...
... necessary purposes of the state . When you see the people of this republic banishing and murdering their best and ablest citizens , dissipating the public treasure with the most senseless extravagance , and spending their whole time ...
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