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 - Great Britain |
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... agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it 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 ...
... agreeable to nature , and proper for mankind , could find it 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 ...
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... agreeable to nature are within the reach of all , and there- fore can form no distinction in favour of the rich . The pleasures which art forces up are seldom sincere , and never satisfying . What is worse , this constant application to ...
... agreeable to nature are within the reach of all , and there- fore can form no distinction in favour of the rich . The pleasures which art forces up are seldom sincere , and never satisfying . What is worse , this constant application to ...
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... agreeable than winter , when every- thing makes a different appearance . I never remember that anything beautiful , whether a man , a beast , a bird , or a plant , was ever shown , though it were to a hundred people , that they did not ...
... agreeable than winter , when every- thing makes a different appearance . I never remember that anything beautiful , whether a man , a beast , a bird , or a plant , was ever shown , though it were to a hundred people , that they did not ...
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... agreeable effect , has made the taste itself at last agreeable . But this does not in the least perplex our reasoning ; because we distinguish to the last the acquired from the natural relish . In describing the taste of an unknown ...
... agreeable effect , has made the taste itself at last agreeable . But this does not in the least perplex our reasoning ; because we distinguish to the last the acquired from the natural relish . In describing the taste of an unknown ...
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... agreeable figure ; the sympathy proceeding from a striking and affecting inci- dent . So far as taste is natural , it is nearly common to all . In poetry , and other pieces of imagination , the same parity be observed . It is true ...
... agreeable figure ; the sympathy proceeding from a striking and affecting inci- dent . So far as taste is natural , it is nearly common to all . In poetry , and other pieces of imagination , the same parity be observed . It is true ...
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