Selections of Edmund BurkeP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 443 ページ contains: On Taste On the Sublime and Beautiful Reflections on the French Revolution A Letter to a Noble Lord |
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... LIGHT . 70 . SECT . XV . - LIGHT IN BUILDING 71 · SECT . XVI . - COLOUR CONSIDERED AS PRODUCTIVE OF THE SUBLIME 72 SECT . XVII . - SOUND AND LOUDNESS 72 SECT . XVIII . - SUDDENNESS 73 SECT . XIX . - INTERMITTING 73 SECT . XX . - THE ...
... LIGHT . 70 . SECT . XV . - LIGHT IN BUILDING 71 · SECT . XVI . - COLOUR CONSIDERED AS PRODUCTIVE OF THE SUBLIME 72 SECT . XVII . - SOUND AND LOUDNESS 72 SECT . XVIII . - SUDDENNESS 73 SECT . XIX . - INTERMITTING 73 SECT . XX . - THE ...
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... light the genuine face of nature . They know that , whilst the mind is intent on the general scheme of things , some particular parts must be neglected ; that we must often submit the style to the matter , and frequently give up the ...
... light the genuine face of nature . They know that , whilst the mind is intent on the general scheme of things , some particular parts must be neglected ; that we must often submit the style to the matter , and frequently give up the ...
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... lights we derive from such exalted speculations , upon the humbler field of the imagination , whilst we investigate the springs , and trace the courses of our passions , we may not only communicate to the taste a sort of philosophical ...
... lights we derive from such exalted speculations , upon the humbler field of the imagination , whilst we investigate the springs , and trace the courses of our passions , we may not only communicate to the taste a sort of philosophical ...
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... light to one eye , appears light to another ; that what seems sweet to one palate , is sweet to another ; that what is dark and bitter to this man , is likewise dark and bitter to that ; and we conclude in the same manner of great and ...
... light to one eye , appears light to another ; that what seems sweet to one palate , is sweet to another ; that what is dark and bitter to this man , is likewise dark and bitter to that ; and we conclude in the same manner of great and ...
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... Light is more pleasing than darkness . Sum- mer , when the earth is clad in green , when the heavens are serene and bright , is more agreeable than winter , when everything makes a different appearance . I never remember that anything ...
... Light is more pleasing than darkness . Sum- mer , when the earth is clad in green , when the heavens are serene and bright , is more agreeable than winter , when everything makes a different appearance . I never remember that anything ...
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amongst ancient animals appear assignats authority beauty body called canton cause church civil clergy colours common confiscation consider considerable constitution crown degree Duke of Bedford Earl of Lauderdale EDMUND BURKE effect election England equal estates everything evil favour feelings force France give honour House of Commons House of Lords human idea imagination imitation infinite justice kind king king of France kingdom land liberty Lord Lord Keppel mankind manner means ment merit mind monarchy moral National Assembly nature never nobility noble object observed Old Jewry operate opinion pain Paris passions persons pleasure political possession principles produce proportion reason regard regicide religion republic revenue Revolution sans-culottes SECT sense society sophism sort sovereign species spirit sublime suffer taste terror things tion virtue whilst whole wisdom words
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144 ページ - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
241 ページ - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
222 ページ - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
222 ページ - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream...
56 ページ - 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: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
59 ページ - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling. He scorneth the multitude of the city, Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
237 ページ - All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
174 ページ - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
207 ページ - ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice, which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.
173 ページ - That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people...