The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund BurkeNath. Cooke, 1854 - 316 pages |
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... object , he has experienced , from the quantity of matter he has had to sift and set in order , far more difficulty and toil than he could have anticipated , or than probably the result of his labours may make it be believed . His ...
... object , he has experienced , from the quantity of matter he has had to sift and set in order , far more difficulty and toil than he could have anticipated , or than probably the result of his labours may make it be believed . His ...
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... objects they saw , with their impressions from them . Edmund wrote , on his own account , a full and able description of ... object but a fat piper with a brown coat . Edmund accordingly began in doggerel Latin : Piper erat fattus qui ...
... objects they saw , with their impressions from them . Edmund wrote , on his own account , a full and able description of ... object but a fat piper with a brown coat . Edmund accordingly began in doggerel Latin : Piper erat fattus qui ...
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... object at the social board being the feast of wit and rea- son . Of gambling or play he knew nothing , even now and then to his own annoyance ; for he used to declare , that whenever he was obliged to join a family - party in the ...
... object at the social board being the feast of wit and rea- son . Of gambling or play he knew nothing , even now and then to his own annoyance ; for he used to declare , that whenever he was obliged to join a family - party in the ...
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... objects , or operates in a manner analogous to terror , is a source of the sublime . " When he comes to speak of beauty , he propounds a theory , of which the following is the substance . Beauty is that quality , or those qualities , of ...
... objects , or operates in a manner analogous to terror , is a source of the sublime . " When he comes to speak of beauty , he propounds a theory , of which the following is the substance . Beauty is that quality , or those qualities , of ...
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... object ; nor , lastly , of the qualities and virtues of the mind , since such rather conciliate our esteem than our love . Beauty , therefore , is no creature of reason , but some merely sensible quality acting mechanically upon the ...
... object ; nor , lastly , of the qualities and virtues of the mind , since such rather conciliate our esteem than our love . Beauty , therefore , is no creature of reason , but some merely sensible quality acting mechanically upon the ...
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