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How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue 131 XII . The real Cause of
Beauty . ib . XIII . Beautiful Objects small 132 XIV . Smoothness 133 xv . Gradual
Variation xvi . Delicacy . XVII . Beauty in Colour . 135 XVIII . Recapitulation . xix .
How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue 131 XII . The real Cause of
Beauty . ib . XIII . Beautiful Objects small 132 XIV . Smoothness 133 xv . Gradual
Variation xvi . Delicacy . XVII . Beauty in Colour . 135 XVIII . Recapitulation . xix .
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... for this disappointment , in seeing every mode of religion attacked in a lively
manner , and the foundation of every virtue , and of all government , sapped with
great art and much ingenuity . What advantage do we derive from such writings ?
... for this disappointment , in seeing every mode of religion attacked in a lively
manner , and the foundation of every virtue , and of all government , sapped with
great art and much ingenuity . What advantage do we derive from such writings ?
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Do they pretend to exalt the mind of man , by proving him no better than a beast ?
Do they think to enforce the practice of virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are
distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ?
Do they pretend to exalt the mind of man , by proving him no better than a beast ?
Do they think to enforce the practice of virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are
distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ?
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Absurd and blasphemous notion ! as if all happiness was not connected with the
practice of virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth ; that
is , upon the knowIedge of those unalterable relations which Providence bas ...
Absurd and blasphemous notion ! as if all happiness was not connected with the
practice of virtue , which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth ; that
is , upon the knowIedge of those unalterable relations which Providence bas ...
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and kingdoms , he might imagine that every sort of virtue was unnatural and
foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so
many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ;
and , in ...
and kingdoms , he might imagine that every sort of virtue was unnatural and
foreign to the mind of man . The first accounts we have of mankind are but so
many accounts of their butcheries . All empires have been cemented in blood ;
and , in ...
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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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