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" ... we find by experience, that eloquence and poetry are as capable, nay indeed much more capable, of making deep and lively impressions than any other arts, and even than nature itself in very many cases. "
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ... - Page 334
by Edmund Burke - 1767 - 342 pages
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...supposed, that their influence over the passions should be but light ; yet it is quite otherwise ; for we find by experience, that eloquence and poetry...indeed much more capable, of making deep and lively impressions than any other arts, and even than nature itself in very many cases. And this arises' chiefly...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...original power, but by reprefentation, it might be fuppofed, that their influence over the paffions fhould be but light; yet it is quite otherwife; for...caufes. Firft, that we take an extraordinary part in the paffions of others, and that we are eafily affected and brought into fympathy by any tokens which are...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...original power, but by reprefentation, it might be fuppofed, that their influence over the paffions mould be but light; yet it is quite otherwife ; for we find...caufes. Firft, that we take an extraordinary part in the paffions of others, and that we are eafily affected and brought into fympathy by any tokens which are...
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An Appeal to the Loyal Citizens of Dublin

Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...original power, but by reprefentation, it might be fuppofed, that their influence over the paffions fhould be but light ; yet it is quite otherwife ;...itfelf in very many cafes. And this arifes chiefly chiefly from thefe three caufes. Firft, that we take an extraordinary part in the paffions of others,...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...original power, but by reprefentation, it might be fuppofed, that their influence over the paffions fhould be but light; yet it is quite otherwife ; for...caufes. Firft, that we take an extraordinary part in the pafllons of others, and that we are eafdy affected and brought into fympathy by any tokens which are...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...original power, but by reprefentation, it might be fuppofed, that their influence over the paflions mould be but light; yet it is quite otherwife ; for we find...caufes. Firft, that we take an extraordinary part in the paffions of others, and that we are eafily affecied and brought into fympa'thy by any tokens which...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pages
...supposed, that their influence over the passions should be but light ; yet it is quite otherwise ; for we find by experience that eloquence and poetry...indeed much more capable, of making deep and lively impressions than any other arts, and even than nature itself in very many cases. And this arises chiefly...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1815 - 362 pages
...be but light; yet it is quite otherwise; for we find by experience, that eloquence and poetry are as as capable, nay indeed much more capable, of making deep and lively impressions than any other arts, and even than nature itself in very many cases. And this arises chiefly...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...supposed, that their influence over the passions should be but light ; yet it is quite otherwise ; for we find by experience, that eloquence and poetry...indeed much more capable, of making deep and lively impressions than any other arts, and even than nature itself in very many cases. And this arises chiefly...
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A philosophical enquiry [&c.].

Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...be but light . yet it is quite otherwise ; for we find by experience that eloquence and poetry arc as capable, nay indeed much more capable, of making deep and lively impressions, than any other arts, and even than nature itself in very many cases. And this arises chiefly...
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