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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... produced 144 145 · 146 • 147 · VI . How Pain can be a Cause of Delight ib . VII . Exercise necessary for the finer Organs VIII . Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror 148 149 IX . Why visual Objects of great ...
... produced 144 145 · 146 • 147 · VI . How Pain can be a Cause of Delight ib . VII . Exercise necessary for the finer Organs VIII . Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror 148 149 IX . Why visual Objects of great ...
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... produce their effect , even after the understanding has been satisfied of their unsubstantial nature . There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods , that dazzles the im- agination , but which neither belongs to , nor becomes the ...
... produce their effect , even after the understanding has been satisfied of their unsubstantial nature . There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods , that dazzles the im- agination , but which neither belongs to , nor becomes the ...
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... produced which cannot be proved , and none which has been produced in wise forced or strained , while thousands have , for brevity , been omitted ; after so candid a discussion in all respects ; what slave so passive , what bigot so ...
... produced which cannot be proved , and none which has been produced in wise forced or strained , while thousands have , for brevity , been omitted ; after so candid a discussion in all respects ; what slave so passive , what bigot so ...
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... produces a weak valetudinary state of body , attended by all those horrid dis- orders , and yet more horrid methods of cure , which are the result of luxury on one hand , and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other ...
... produces a weak valetudinary state of body , attended by all those horrid dis- orders , and yet more horrid methods of cure , which are the result of luxury on one hand , and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other ...
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... produced by the madness or wickedness of theologians , and I will show you an hundred resulting from the ambition and villany of conquerors and statesmen . Show me an absurdity in religion , and I will 46 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... produced by the madness or wickedness of theologians , and I will show you an hundred resulting from the ambition and villany of conquerors and statesmen . Show me an absurdity in religion , and I will 46 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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