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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... ment , and affected mystery of the law are such , that many who live under it come to admire and envy the expedition , sim- plicity , and equality of arbitrary judgments . I need insist the less on this article to your Lordship , as you ...
... ment , and affected mystery of the law are such , that many who live under it come to admire and envy the expedition , sim- plicity , and equality of arbitrary judgments . I need insist the less on this article to your Lordship , as you ...
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... ment . On the whole it appears to me , that what is called taste , in its most general acceptation , is not a simple idea , but is partly made up of a perception of the primary pleasures of sense , of the secondary pleasures of the ...
... ment . On the whole it appears to me , that what is called taste , in its most general acceptation , is not a simple idea , but is partly made up of a perception of the primary pleasures of sense , of the secondary pleasures of the ...
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... ment , to dwell upon each , and to find a thousand new per- fections in all , that were not sufficiently understood before ; in grief , the pleasure is still uppermost ; and the affliction we suffer has no resemblance to absolute pain ...
... ment , to dwell upon each , and to find a thousand new per- fections in all , that were not sufficiently understood before ; in grief , the pleasure is still uppermost ; and the affliction we suffer has no resemblance to absolute pain ...
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... ment ; and astonishment is that state of the soul , in which all its motions are suspended , with some degree of horror In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object , that it cannot entertain any other , nor by ...
... ment ; and astonishment is that state of the soul , in which all its motions are suspended , with some degree of horror In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object , that it cannot entertain any other , nor by ...
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... ment , has Virgil amassed all these circumstances , where he knows that all the images of a tremendous dignity ought to be united , at the mouth of hell ! where , before he unlocks the secrets of the great deep , he seems to be seized ...
... ment , has Virgil amassed all these circumstances , where he knows that all the images of a tremendous dignity ought to be united , at the mouth of hell ! where , before he unlocks the secrets of the great deep , he seems to be seized ...
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