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T ANOTHER ' source of greatness is Difficulty . When any work seems to have
required immense force and labour to effect it , the idea is grand . Stonehenge ,
neither for disposi| Part IV . sect . 4 — 6 . tion nor ornament , has anything
admirable ...
T ANOTHER ' source of greatness is Difficulty . When any work seems to have
required immense force and labour to effect it , the idea is grand . Stonehenge ,
neither for disposi| Part IV . sect . 4 — 6 . tion nor ornament , has anything
admirable ...
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tion nor ornament , has anything admirable ; but those huge rude masses of
stone , set on end , and piled each on other , turn the mind on the immense force
necessary for such a work . Nay , the rudeness of the work increases this cause
of ...
tion nor ornament , has anything admirable ; but those huge rude masses of
stone , set on end , and piled each on other , turn the mind on the immense force
necessary for such a work . Nay , the rudeness of the work increases this cause
of ...
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... effectually causes some degree of love in us , as the application of ice or fire
produces the ideas of heat or cold . To gain something like a satisfactory
conclusion in this point , it were well to examine , what propor . tion is ; since
several who ...
... effectually causes some degree of love in us , as the application of ice or fire
produces the ideas of heat or cold . To gain something like a satisfactory
conclusion in this point , it were well to examine , what propor . tion is ; since
several who ...
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... but flowers are almost of every sort of shape , and of every sort of disposi . tion ;
they are turned and fashioned into an infinite variety of forms ; and from these
forms botanists have given them their names , which are almost as various .
... but flowers are almost of every sort of shape , and of every sort of disposi . tion ;
they are turned and fashioned into an infinite variety of forms ; and from these
forms botanists have given them their names , which are almost as various .
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MPANIES SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION . 1766 .
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and they ...
... com cribed the caker da se Tagion et ry nother , at he obiecte cons , broer
MPANIES SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION . 1766 .
bserred to for their detienen tion and te eral the at tone 1 Uncultirati ther MD " ,
and they ...
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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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