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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... reason , or what appeared to me sufficient , for making any material change in my theory , I have found it necessary in many places to explain , illustrate , and enforce it . I have prefixed an introductory discourse concerning Taste ...
... reason , or what appeared to me sufficient , for making any material change in my theory , I have found it necessary in many places to explain , illustrate , and enforce it . I have prefixed an introductory discourse concerning Taste ...
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... reason and taste is the same in all human creatures . For if there were not some principles of judgment as well as of sentiment common to all mankind , no hold could possibly be taken either on their reason or their passions ...
... reason and taste is the same in all human creatures . For if there were not some principles of judgment as well as of sentiment common to all mankind , no hold could possibly be taken either on their reason or their passions ...
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... reason . And indeed , it is very necessary , at the entrance into such an inquiry as our pres- ent , to make this point as clear as possible ; for if taste has no fixed principles , if the imagination is not affected accord- ing to some ...
... reason . And indeed , it is very necessary , at the entrance into such an inquiry as our pres- ent , to make this point as clear as possible ; for if taste has no fixed principles , if the imagination is not affected accord- ing to some ...
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... reason of this kind , that Homer and the Oriental writers , though very fond of similitudes , and though they often strike out such as are truly admirable , seldom take care to have them exact ; that is , they are taken with the general ...
... reason of this kind , that Homer and the Oriental writers , though very fond of similitudes , and though they often strike out such as are truly admirable , seldom take care to have them exact ; that is , they are taken with the general ...
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... reason . And indeed , on the whole , one may ob- serve that there is rather less difference upon matters of taste among mankind , than upon most of those which depend upon the naked reason ; and that men are far better agreed on the ...
... reason . And indeed , on the whole , one may ob- serve that there is rather less difference upon matters of taste among mankind , than upon most of those which depend upon the naked reason ; and that men are far better agreed on the ...
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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...