The Works of Edmund Burke

THE

WORKS OF EDMUND BURKE,

WITH A MEMOIR.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW YORK:

GEORGE DEARBORN, PUBLISHER.

SOLD BY B. & s. COLLINS, NEW YORK; HILLIARD, GRAY, & co.,
BOSTON; DESILVER, JR., & co., PHILADELPHIA; AND

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18 3 5.

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER iii The final cause of the difference between

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT

the Passions belonging to self-preser-

EDITION

vil vation, and those which regard the so-

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL So- ciety of the sexes

49
CIETY: OR, A VIEW OF THE MISE-

Of Beauty

ib.
RIES AND EVILS ARISING TO MAN Society and Solitude

50
KIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF A' .- Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition ib.
TIFICIAL SOCIETY
ix Sympathy

ib.

A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE The effects of Sympathy in the distresses

ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUB-

of others

51

LIME AND BEAUTIFUL; WITH AN

Of the effects of Tragedy

ib.

INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE CONCERN-

Latroduction. On Taste

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Infinity in pleasing Objects

62 Taste and Smell

Difficulty

ib. The Sublime and Beautiful compared

Of the efficient cause of the Sublime and

Colour considered as productive of the

Cause of pain and Fear

How the Sublime is produced

The Cries of Animals .

ib.

Smell and Taste. Bitters and Stenches ib.

How Pain can be a cause of Delight
Feeling. Pain

Exercise necessary for the finer Organs

66

Why things not dangerous sometimes

produce a passion like Terrour

PART III.

Why visual objects of great dimensions

are Sublime

of Beauty

66 Unity, why requisite to Vastness

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in The artificial Infinite

Vegetables

67

The vibrations must be similar

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in

The effects of succession in visual objects

Animals

68

explained

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in

Locke's opinion concerning Darkness con-

the Human Species

69

sidered

Proportion further considered

71

Darkness terrible in its own nature

Fitness not the cause of Beauty

72

Why darkness is terrible

The real effects of Fitness

73

The effects of Blackness

The Recapitulation

74

The effects of Blackness moderated

Perfection not the cause of Beauty ib.

The physical cause of Love

How far the idea of Beauty may

be

ap-

Why Smoothness is Beautiful

plied to the qualities of the mind ib.

Sweetness, its nature

How far the idea of Beauty may be

ap- Sweetness relaxing

plied to virtue

75

Variation why beautiful

The real cause of Beauty

ib.

Concerning Smallness

Beautiful objects small

ib. The common effect of Poetry, not by rais-

The Physiognomy

ib. ing ideas of things

The Eye

ib. General words before ideas-

Ugliness

78 The effect of Words

Grace

ib. Examples that words may affect without

Elegance and Speciousness

ib.

raising images

The Beautiful in Feeling

ib. Poetry not strictly an imitative art

The Beautiful in Sounds

79 How Words influence the Passions

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A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT OF COMMONS, A PLAN FOR THE

ADMINISTRATION

100 BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDE-

OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICA-

PENDENCE OF PARLIAMENT, AND

TION, INTITULED, THE PRESENT

THE ECONOMICAL REFORMATION OF

STATE OF THE NATION

101 THE CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHI-

APPENDIX TO OBSERVATION ON THE

MENTS

275

PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION 154 SPEECH AT BRISTOL PREVIOUS TO THE

THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE ELECTION, 1780

309

PRESENT DISCONTENTS

157

SPEECH AT BRISTOL ON DECLINING

SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION

191 THE POLL

328

SPEECH AT MR. BURKE'S ARRIVAL SPEECH ON THE EAST-INDIA BILL 330

A REPRESENTATION TO HIS MAJESTY

AT BRISTOL, AND AT THE Conclu-

SION OF THE POLL

217

MOVED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

SPEECA ON
HIS RESOLU-

JUNE 14, 1784

MOVING

366

TIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH.

SPEECH ON THE NABOB OF ARCOT's

A LETTER FROM MR. BURKE TO THE

APPENDIX TO THE PRECEDING SPEECH 416

SUBSTANCE OF THE SPEECH ON THE

SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL, ON THE AF-

Two LETTERS FROM MR. BURKE TO

REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN

GENTLEMEN IN THE CITY OF BRIS-

FRANCE, AND ON THE PROCEEDINGS

TOL, ON THE BILL DEPENDING IN

OF CERTAIN SOCIETIES IN LONDON

PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO THE

RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT

456

TRADE OF IRELAND

270

LETTER TO A MEMBER OF THE NA-

SPEECH ON PRESENTISG TO THE HOCSE

TIONAL ASSEMBLY

567

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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1