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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... 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 Infinite 151 XVI . Why Darkness is terrible XII . The ...
... 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 Infinite 151 XVI . Why Darkness is terrible XII . The ...
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... danger of letting the imagina- tion loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the ...
... danger of letting the imagina- tion loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the ...
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... dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false pro- positions ; and that , to know whether any proposition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons ...
... dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false pro- positions ; and that , to know whether any proposition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons ...
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... dangerous consequences .. Absurd and blasphemous notion ! as if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue , which necessarily de- pends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the know- ledge of those unalterable ...
... dangerous consequences .. Absurd and blasphemous notion ! as if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue , which necessarily de- pends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the know- ledge of those unalterable ...
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... danger ; the mutual return of kindness and civility , would af- ford a very ample and very pleasing subject for history . But , alas ! all the history of all times , concerning all nations , does not afford matter enough to fill ten ...
... danger ; the mutual return of kindness and civility , would af- ford a very ample and very pleasing subject for history . But , alas ! all the history of all times , concerning all nations , does not afford matter enough to fill ten ...
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