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The Common Effects of Poetry , not by raising Ideas of things . . . . . . 170 III .
General Words before Ideas . . 171 IV . The Effect of Words . 172 . Examples that
Words may affect without raising Images 1731 vi . Poetry not strictly an imitative
Art ...
The Common Effects of Poetry , not by raising Ideas of things . . . . . . 170 III .
General Words before Ideas . . 171 IV . The Effect of Words . 172 . Examples that
Words may affect without raising Images 1731 vi . Poetry not strictly an imitative
Art ...
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... and feel such refreshing airs of liberty , as daily raise our ardour for more . The
miseries derived to mankind from superstition under the name of religion , and of
ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly
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... and feel such refreshing airs of liberty , as daily raise our ardour for more . The
miseries derived to mankind from superstition under the name of religion , and of
ecclesiastical tyranny under the name of church government , have been clearly
...
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He oppresses and ruins the people , whilst he persuades the prince , that those
murmurs raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince
' s government . Then is the natural violence of despotism inflamed and ...
He oppresses and ruins the people , whilst he persuades the prince , that those
murmurs raised by his own oppression are the effects of disaffection to the prince
' s government . Then is the natural violence of despotism inflamed and ...
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... for ever debar . red ; this fallacious idea of liberty , whilst it presents a vain
shadow of bappiness to the subject , binds faster the chains of his subjection .
What is left undone by the natural avarice and pride of those who are raised
above the ...
... for ever debar . red ; this fallacious idea of liberty , whilst it presents a vain
shadow of bappiness to the subject , binds faster the chains of his subjection .
What is left undone by the natural avarice and pride of those who are raised
above the ...
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But as there will be little doubt that bodies present similar images to the whole
species , it must necessarily be allowed , that the pleasures and the pains which
every object excites in one man , it must raise in all mankind , whilst it operates ...
But as there will be little doubt that bodies present similar images to the whole
species , it must necessarily be allowed , that the pleasures and the pains which
every object excites in one man , it must raise in all mankind , whilst it operates ...
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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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