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" I am apt to imagine likewise, that height is less grand than depth; and that we are more struck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up at an object of equal height; but of that I am not very positive. "
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ... - Page 126
by Edmund Burke - 1776 - 342 pages
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...altitude. I am apt to imagine likewise, that height is less grand than depth ; and that we are more struck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up...object of equal height ; but of that I am not very positive. A perpendicular has more force in forming the sublime, than an inclined plane ; and the effects...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...or a rock or mountain of that altitude. I am apt to imagine likewife, that height is lefs grand than depth ; and that we are more ftruck at looking down...forming the fublime, than an inclined plain ; and the effe&s of a rugged and broken furface feem ftronger than where it is fmooth and polifhed. It would...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...altitude. I am apt to imagine likewife, that height is tefs grand than depth ; and that we are more {truck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up...inclined plain; and the effects of a rugged and broken farface feern ftronger than where it is fmooth and polimed. It would carry us out of our way to enter...
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The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from the Writings ...

Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...that height is lefs grand than depth ; and that we are mofe ftruclc at looking down from a precipke, than looking up at an object of equal height ; but of that I am hot very pofitive. A perpendicular has more force in forming the fublime, than an inclined plain ;...
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An Appeal to the Loyal Citizens of Dublin

Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...or a rock or mountain of that altitude. I am apt to imagine likewife, that height is lefs grand than depth ; and that we are more ftruck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up at an objecl: of equal height : but of that I am not very pofitive. A perpendicular has more force in forming...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...or a rock or mountain of that altitude. I am apt to imagine likewife, that height is lefs grand than depth ; and that we are more ftruck at looking down...but of that I am not very pofitive. A perpendicular lias more force in forming the fublime than an inclined plane ; and the effects of a rugged and broken...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...or a rock or mountain of that altitude. I am apt to imagine likewife, that height is lefs grand than depth ; and that we are more ftruck at looking down from a precipke, than looking up at an object of equal height ; but of that I am not" very pofitive. A perpendicular...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 pages
...altitude. I am apt to imagine likewise, that height is less grand than depth ; and that we are more struck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up...object of equal height ; but of that I am not very positive. A perpendicular has more force in forming the sublime than an inclined plane ; and the effects...
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A philosophical enquiry [&c.].

Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...altitude. I am apt to imagine likewise, that height is less grand than depth ; and .that we are more struck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up...object of equal height: but of that I am not very positive. A perpendicular has more force in forming the sublime than an inclined plane ; and the effects...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...that height is less grand than depth ; and that we are more struck with looking down from a precipirc, than looking up at an object of equal height ; but of that I am not very positive. A perpendicular lias more force in forming1 the sublime, than an inclined plane ; and the...
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