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Page 21
... that these sorts of policed societies are a violation offered to nature , and a
constraint upon the human mind , it needs only to look upon the sanguinary
measures , and instruments of violence , which are everywhere used to support
them .
... that these sorts of policed societies are a violation offered to nature , and a
constraint upon the human mind , it needs only to look upon the sanguinary
measures , and instruments of violence , which are everywhere used to support
them .
Page 36
And I could demonstrate , that they have had the opportunity of doing all this
mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that
complex form of government which we are wisely taught to look upon as so great
a blessing ...
And I could demonstrate , that they have had the opportunity of doing all this
mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that
complex form of government which we are wisely taught to look upon as so great
a blessing ...
Page 60
Some time after , we suppose that this novice lights upon a more artificial work of
the same nature ; he now begins to look with contempt on what he admired at first
; not that he admired it even then for its unlikeness to a man , but for that ...
Some time after , we suppose that this novice lights upon a more artificial work of
the same nature ; he now begins to look with contempt on what he admired at first
; not that he admired it even then for its unlikeness to a man , but for that ...
Page 88
Whatever therefore is terrible , with regard to sight , is sublime too , whether this
cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not ; for it is
impossible to look on anything as trifling , or contemptible , that may be
dangerous .
Whatever therefore is terrible , with regard to sight , is sublime too , whether this
cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not ; for it is
impossible to look on anything as trifling , or contemptible , that may be
dangerous .
Page 92
... Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal
misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous
twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs .
... Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal
misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous
twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs .
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Vindication of Natural Society. Essay on the sublime and the beautiful Bohn's British classics Volume 1 of The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2008 |
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