The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1902 |
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... particular parts must be neglected ; that we must often submit the style to the matter , and frequently give up the praise of elegance , satisfied with being clear . The characters of nature are legible , it is true ; but they are not ...
... particular parts must be neglected ; that we must often submit the style to the matter , and frequently give up the praise of elegance , satisfied with being clear . The characters of nature are legible , it is true ; but they are not ...
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... particular theory . And my point in this inquiry is , to find whether there are any principles , on which the imagination is affected , so common to all , so ground- ed and certain , as to supply the means of reasoning satisfac- torily ...
... particular theory . And my point in this inquiry is , to find whether there are any principles , on which the imagination is affected , so common to all , so ground- ed and certain , as to supply the means of reasoning satisfac- torily ...
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... particular man may find from the taste of some particular thing . This indeed cannot be disputed ; but we may dispute , and with sufficient clearness too , concerning the things which are naturally pleasing or disagreeable to the sense ...
... particular man may find from the taste of some particular thing . This indeed cannot be disputed ; but we may dispute , and with sufficient clearness too , concerning the things which are naturally pleasing or disagreeable to the sense ...
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... and only vitiated in some particular points . For in judging of any new thing , even of a taste similar to that which he has been formed by habit to like , he finds his palate affected in a natural manner , and on the common ON TASTE . 57.
... and only vitiated in some particular points . For in judging of any new thing , even of a taste similar to that which he has been formed by habit to like , he finds his palate affected in a natural manner , and on the common ON TASTE . 57.
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... particular habits or advantages . Mr. Locke very justly and finely observes of wit , that it is chiefly conversant in tracing resemblances : he remarks , at the same time , that the business of judgment is rather in finding differences ...
... particular habits or advantages . Mr. Locke very justly and finely observes of wit , that it is chiefly conversant in tracing resemblances : he remarks , at the same time , that the business of judgment is rather in finding differences ...
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Page 512 - Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man. 3*. 6d. Chalmers on the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man. 5*.
Page 460 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.
Page 506 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 445 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 91 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 466 - in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law, — and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 506 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.