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How the Sublime is produced . . . . 147 vi . How Pain can be a Cause of Delight . .
ib . vii . Exercise necessary for the finer Organs 148 VIII . Why things not
dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror . . 149 Ix . Why visual
Objects of ...
How the Sublime is produced . . . . 147 vi . How Pain can be a Cause of Delight . .
ib . vii . Exercise necessary for the finer Organs 148 VIII . Why things not
dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror . . 149 Ix . Why visual
Objects of ...
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And it very frequently happens , that those pleasing impressions on the
imagination , subsist and produce their effect , even after the understanding has
been satisfied of their unsubstantial nature . There is a sort of gloss upon
ingenious ...
And it very frequently happens , that those pleasing impressions on the
imagination , subsist and produce their effect , even after the understanding has
been satisfied of their unsubstantial nature . There is a sort of gloss upon
ingenious ...
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Their diet must have been confined almost wholly to the vegetable kind ; and the
same tree , which in its flourishing state produced them berries , in its decay gave
them an habitation . The mutual desires of the sexes uniting their bodies and ...
Their diet must have been confined almost wholly to the vegetable kind ; and the
same tree , which in its flourishing state produced them berries , in its decay gave
them an habitation . The mutual desires of the sexes uniting their bodies and ...
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Accident restored their liberty , and the same good fortune produced men of
uncommon abilities and uncommon virtues amongst them . But these abilities
were suffered to be of little service either to their possessors or to the state . Some
of ...
Accident restored their liberty , and the same good fortune produced men of
uncommon abilities and uncommon virtues amongst them . But these abilities
were suffered to be of little service either to their possessors or to the state . Some
of ...
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After so fair an examen , wherein nothing has been exaggerated ; no fact
produced which cannot be proved , and none which has been produced in any
wise forced or strained , while thousands have , for brevity , been omitted ; after
so candid ...
After so fair an examen , wherein nothing has been exaggerated ; no fact
produced which cannot be proved , and none which has been produced in any
wise forced or strained , while thousands have , for brevity , been omitted ; after
so candid ...
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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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