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Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror . . 149 Ix .
Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime ib . x . Unity , why requisite
to Vastness . 150 XI . The artificial Infinite . . 151 XII . The Vibrations must be
similar .
Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror . . 149 Ix .
Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime ib . x . Unity , why requisite
to Vastness . 150 XI . The artificial Infinite . . 151 XII . The Vibrations must be
similar .
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BEFORE the philosophical works of Lord BOLINGBROKE had appeared , great
things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of
action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure ...
BEFORE the philosophical works of Lord BOLINGBROKE had appeared , great
things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of
action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure ...
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... and that specious arguments might be used against those things which they ,
who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be questioned . It is an
observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the
sophists , that ...
... and that specious arguments might be used against those things which they ,
who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be questioned . It is an
observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the
sophists , that ...
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The thing ! the thing itself is the abuse ! Observe , my Lord , I pray you , that grand
error upon which all artificial legislative power is founded . It was observed that
men had ungovernable passions , which made it necessary to guard against the
...
The thing ! the thing itself is the abuse ! Observe , my Lord , I pray you , that grand
error upon which all artificial legislative power is founded . It was observed that
men had ungovernable passions , which made it necessary to guard against the
...
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... whether concerning foreign or domestic affairs , the whole generally turns more
upon some party - matter than upon the nature of the thing itself ; whether such a
step will diminish or augment the power of the crown , or how far the privileges ...
... whether concerning foreign or domestic affairs , the whole generally turns more
upon some party - matter than upon the nature of the thing itself ; whether such a
step will diminish or augment the power of the crown , or how far the privileges ...
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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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