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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence]. - Page 122
by Edmund Burke - 1792
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...degree. SECT. IV. OF THE DIFFEBENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation,...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1764 - 458 pages
...degree. SECT. IV. J Of the difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with regard to the paffions. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it offering to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, I prefent...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1776 - 368 pages
...SECT. IV. . , Of the difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with regard to the paffions. . • IT is one thing to make an idea clear* and another to...drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, .1 prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation, which...
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A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1787 - 368 pages
...degree. SECT. IV. Of the difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with regard to the paffions. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...idea of thofe objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation, which is fomething) my picture can at moft affect only as the palace, H 3 temple,...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 pages
...indiftinct, the imprcfliorf; however, may be great ; for, as an ingenious Author has well obferved, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make iC affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may be ftrongly affected, and, in fact, often...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...black be flood as night ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell\ AndjJjook a deadly dart. What feenfd his head The likenefs of a kingly crown had on. In...idea of thofe objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation, which is fomething) my pi&ure can at moft affect only as the palace, temple, or...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1793 - 518 pages
...indiftindt, the impreffion, however, may be great ; for, as an ingenious author has well obferyed, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may be flrongly affected, and, in fact, often is fo, by objects of which we have...
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The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ...

1796 - 784 pages
...indiftinft, the impreflion, however, may be great ; tor, as an ingenious author has well obferved, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may be ftrongly affeded, and, in fa ft, often is fo, by objeûs of which we have...
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An Appeal to the Loyal Citizens of Dublin

Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...degree. SECT. SECT. IV. Of the difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with regard to the paffions. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...landfcape, I prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects j but then (allowing for the effect of imitation, which is fomething) my picture can at moft affect...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...degree. SECT. IV. OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...landfcape, I prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects £ butthen (allowing for the effect of imitation, which is fomething) my picture can at moft affect...
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