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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ... - Page 65
by Edmund Burke - 1776 - 342 pages
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...nature ; but they are attached to particulars by perfonal beauty. I call beauty a focial quality ; for where women and men, and not only they, but when...defigned, I am unable to difcover; for I fee no greater reafon for a connection between man and feveral animals who are attired in fo engaging a manner, than...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...of nature; but they are attached to particulars by perfonal heauty. I call beauty a focial quality; for where women and men, and not only they, but when...willingly into a kind of relation with them, unlefs we fhould have ftrong reafons to the contrary. But to what end, in many cafes, this was defigned, I am...
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The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from the Writings ...

Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...them (and. there are many that do fo), they infpire us with fen-, timents of tendernefs and afrcfclion towards their perfons; we like to have them near us,...enter willingly into a kind of relation with them, uftlefs we fhould have ftrong reafons to the contrary. But to what end, in many .cafes, this was defigned,...
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An Appeal to the Loyal Citizens of Dublin

Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...where women and men, and not only they, but when other animals give us a fenfe of joy and pleafurc in beholding them (and there are many that do fo),...enter willingly into a kind of relation with them, uulefs we fliould have flrong reafons to the contrary. But to what end, in many cafes, this was defigned,...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...focial quality ; for when women and men, and not only they, but when other animals give us a fenie of joy and pleafure in beholding them (and there are...end, in many cafes, this was. defigned, I am unable ^P difcover \ for I fee no greater reafon for a connection between man and feveral animals who are...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...pleafure in beholding them (and there are many that do fo), they infpire us with fentiments of tender nefs and affection towards their perfons ; we like to have...cafes, this was defigned, I am unable to difcover ; for J fee no greater greater reafon for a connexion between man and feveral animals who are attired in...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pages
...many that do so), they inspire us with sentiments of tenderness and affection towards their persons ; we like to have them near us, and we enter willingly into a kind of relation with them, unless we should have strong reasons to the contrary. But to what end, in many cases, this was designed,...
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Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the ..., Volume 3

Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 420 pages
...many that do so,) they inspire us with sentiments of tenderness and affection towards their persons ; we like to have them near us, and we enter willingly into a kind of relation with them, unless we should have strong reasons to th« £Qrj$rary. This very just and natural distinction between...
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A letter to Uvedale Price, Esq., [by] H. Repton, A letter to H. Repton, Esq ...

Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 420 pages
...many that do so) they inspire us with sentiments of tenderness and affection towards their persons; we like to have them near us, and we enter willingly into a kind of relation with them, unless we should have strong reasons to the contrary. This very just and natural distinction between...
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A philosophical enquiry [&c.].

Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...many that do so), they inspire us with sentiments of tenderness and affection towards their persons ; we like to have them near us, and we enter willingly into a kind of relation with theia, unless we should have strong reasons to the contrary. But to whac end, in many cases, this was...
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