 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 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 things, they seem to be infinite, and they produce the same effects as if they were really so. We are deceived in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 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 - Great Britain - 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Penn - Great Britain - 1800 - 212 pages
...acquiesce in the present object of the sense;" as also, where the sublime is alone considered, that " the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many things, they seem to be infinite, and they produce the same effects as if they were really so." In this manner the... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 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 - 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 things, they seem to be infinite, and they produce the same effects as if they were really so. We are deceived in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...things which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their own nature infinite. But nce with those of England, by drawing us into an imitation of the seem to be infinite, and they prodece the same effects as if they were really so. We are deceived in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...things which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their own nature infinite. But considered ; must be compared ; must be reconciled, if possible. seem to be infinite, and they produce the same effects as if they were really so. We are deceived in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1844 - 232 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 things, they seem to be infinite, and they produce the same effects as if they were really so. We are deceived,... | |
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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... 
