The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volumen1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 |
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... suffered greatly ; and that , of this immense number , but a very small part could have returned to enjoy the plunder ac- cumulated by the loss of so many of their compa nions , and the devastation of so considerable a part of the world ...
... suffered greatly ; and that , of this immense number , but a very small part could have returned to enjoy the plunder ac- cumulated by the loss of so many of their compa nions , and the devastation of so considerable a part of the world ...
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... suffered ; what shall we judge of countries more extended , and which have waged wars by far more considerable ? Instances of this sort compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than universal destruction ...
... suffered ; what shall we judge of countries more extended , and which have waged wars by far more considerable ? Instances of this sort compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than universal destruction ...
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... suffer ourselves to imagine , that their senses present to different men different images of things , this scepti- cal proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning ...
... suffer ourselves to imagine , that their senses present to different men different images of things , this scepti- cal proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning ...
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... suffer his taste to be delicate ; and he is in all respects what Ovid says of himself in love , Molle meum levibus cor est violabile ielis , Et semper causa est , cur ego semper amem . One of this character can never be a refined judge ...
... suffer his taste to be delicate ; and he is in all respects what Ovid says of himself in love , Molle meum levibus cor est violabile ielis , Et semper causa est , cur ego semper amem . One of this character can never be a refined judge ...
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... suffered from any violent emotion , the mind naturally continues in something like the same condition , after the cause which first pro- duced it has ceased to operate . The tossing of the sea remains after the storm ; and when this ...
... suffered from any violent emotion , the mind naturally continues in something like the same condition , after the cause which first pro- duced it has ceased to operate . The tossing of the sea remains after the storm ; and when this ...
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Página 161 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Página 248 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 187 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Página 166 - 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...
Página 141 - IT is by the first of these passions that we enter into the concerns of others; that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost any thing which men can do or suffer.
Página 158 - No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror, be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on any thing as trifling, or contemptible, that may be dangerous.
Página 165 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 174 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
Página 171 - 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 dwellings. 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.
Página 317 - This idea or this affection caused by a word, which nothing but a word could annex to the others, raises a very great degree of the sublime ; and this sublime is raised yet .higher by what follows, a "universe of Death.