The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell & sons, 1889 |
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... imagination , whilst we investigate the springs , and trace the courses of our passions , we may not only communicate to the taste a sort of philo- sophical solidity , but we may reflect back on the severer sciences some of the graces ...
... imagination , whilst we investigate the springs , and trace the courses of our passions , we may not only communicate to the taste a sort of philo- sophical solidity , but we may reflect back on the severer sciences some of the graces ...
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... imagination is not affected according to some invariable and certain laws , our labour is likely to be employed to very little purpose ; as it must be judged a useless , if not an absurd undertaking , to lay down rules for caprice , and ...
... imagination is not affected according to some invariable and certain laws , our labour is likely to be employed to very little purpose ; as it must be judged a useless , if not an absurd undertaking , to lay down rules for caprice , and ...
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... imagination and the elegant arts . This is , I think , the most general idea of that word , and what is the least connected with any particular theory . And my point in this inquiry is , to find whether there are any principles , on ...
... imagination and the elegant arts . This is , I think , the most general idea of that word , and what is the least connected with any particular theory . And my point in this inquiry is , to find whether there are any principles , on ...
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... imagination ; and to this belongs whatever is called wit , fancy , invention , and the like . But it must be observed , that this power of the imagination is in- capable of producing anything absolutely new ; it can only vary the ...
... imagination ; and to this belongs whatever is called wit , fancy , invention , and the like . But it must be observed , that this power of the imagination is in- capable of producing anything absolutely new ; it can only vary the ...
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... imagination : but when two distinct objects have a resemblance , we are struck , we attend to them , and we are pleased . The mind of man has naturally a far greater alacrity and satisfaction in tracing resemblances than in searching ...
... imagination : but when two distinct objects have a resemblance , we are struck , we attend to them , and we are pleased . The mind of man has naturally a far greater alacrity and satisfaction in tracing resemblances than in searching ...
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Page 74 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Page 476 - State, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 92 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 508 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 467 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Page 454 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is (let me say) of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Page 508 - 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. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution.
Page 468 - Commentaries 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 507 - 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 strong as links of iron.