The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... believe , at the first time of seeing a piece of imitation ever did . Some time after , we suppose that this novice lights up- on a more artificial work of the same nature ; he now begins to look with contempt on what he admired at ...
... believe , at the first time of seeing a piece of imitation ever did . Some time after , we suppose that this novice lights up- on a more artificial work of the same nature ; he now begins to look with contempt on what he admired at ...
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... believe it true , that the reason is little con- sulted ; but where disposition , where decorum , where con- gruity are concerned , in short , wherever the best taste differs from the worst , I am convinced that the understand- ing ...
... believe it true , that the reason is little con- sulted ; but where disposition , where decorum , where con- gruity are concerned , in short , wherever the best taste differs from the worst , I am convinced that the understand- ing ...
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... believe , has attended the course of a discussion , which turned upon matters within the sphere of mere naked reason , but must have observed the extreme readiness with which the whole process of the argument is carried on , the grounds ...
... believe , has attended the course of a discussion , which turned upon matters within the sphere of mere naked reason , but must have observed the extreme readiness with which the whole process of the argument is carried on , the grounds ...
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... believe , be much more readily allowed than the latter ; because it is very evident that pleasure , when it has run its career , sets us down very nearly where it found us . Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies ; and when it is over ...
... believe , be much more readily allowed than the latter ; because it is very evident that pleasure , when it has run its career , sets us down very nearly where it found us . Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies ; and when it is over ...
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... believe that this notion of our having a simple pain in the reality , yet a delight in the representation , arises from hence , that we do not sufficiently distinguish what we would by no means choose to do , from what we should be ...
... believe that this notion of our having a simple pain in the reality , yet a delight in the representation , arises from hence , that we do not sufficiently distinguish what we would by no means choose to do , from what we should be ...
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