The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

F. & J. Rivington, 1852 - Great Britain

Feeling Pain	619

PART III	621

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in Vegetables	622

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in Animals	624

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in the Human Species	625

Proportion further considered	629

Fitness not the cause of Beauty	631

The real effects of Fitness	633

Nov 2	25

June 12	38

Jan 18	43

Dec 18	81

Jan 9	83

xii	85

Rt Hon Henry Grattan to Rich Burke Jun	185

Aug 18	221

APPENDIX	253

The Papers marked are now first printed from the original MSS 1852	266

Sept 2	301

Rt Hon Edm Burke to Dr Laurence	371

March 16	377

April 2	386

May 21	396

No Date The Americans of the United States during the War	434

No Date	440

No Date	452

Aug 2	463

Dec 19 Mr Bancroft to Earl Fitzwilliam	469

SECT	581

PART II	598

Obscurity	599

Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with regard to the Passions	600

609 ib 610 IV The same subject continued	601

Power	603

Privation	608

Vastness VIII Infinity	609

Succession and Uniformity	610

Magnitude in Building	612

Difficulty	613

Light	614

Light in Building	615

Colour considered as productive of the Sublime XVII Sound and Loudness 7 612 ib 613	616

Suddenness XIX Intermitting	617

The Cries of Animals XXI Smell and Taste Bitters and Stenches	618

The Recapitulation	635

How far the idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue	636

The real cause of Beauty XIII Beautiful Objects small	637

Smoothness	638

Gradual Variation	639

Delicacy XVII Beauty in Colour	640

Recapitulation	641

Ugliness XXII Grace	642

Elegance and Speciousness XXIV The Beautiful in Feeling	643

The Beautiful in Sounds	644

Taste and Smell	646

PART IV	648

Association	649

Continued V How the Sublime is produced	651

How Pain can be a cause of Delight 651	652

Exercise necessary for the finer Organs VIII Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a passion like Terror	653

Why visual Objects of great dimensions are Sublime	654

Unity why requisite to Vastness XI The artificial Infinite	655

The Vibrations must be similar	656

The Effects of Succession in visual Objects explained	657

Lockes opinion concerning Darkness considered	658

Darkness terrible in its own Nature	659

Why Darkness is terrible	660

The Effects of Blackness	661

The Effects of Blackness moderated	662

The physical cause of Love	663

Why Smoothness is Beautiful	664

Sweetness its Nature	665

Sweetness relaxing	666

Variation why beautiful	667

Concerning Smallness	668

Of Colour	670

SECT PAGE I Of Words	672

General Words before Ideas	674

Examples that Words may affect without raising Images	675

Poetry not strictly an imitative art	679

Title	The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2 The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke
Author	Edmund Burke
Publisher	F. & J. Rivington, 1852
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	6 Dec 2018

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