 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...there is no spectacle we so eagerly pursue, as that of some uncommon and grievous calamity ; so that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or whether they are turned back to it in history, it always touches with delight. This is not an unmixed delight, but blended with no small... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...there is no fpectacle we fo eagerly purfue, as that of fome uncommon and grievous calamity ; fo that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or whether...uneafinefs. The delight we have in fuch things, hinders us from fhunning fcenes of mifery ; and the pain we feel, prompts us to relieve ourfelves in relieving... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...there is no fpe&acle we fo eagerly purfue, as that of fome uncommon and grievous calamity; fo that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or whether...not an unmixed delight, but blended with no fmall unealmefs. The delight we have in fuch things, hinders us from fhunning fcenes of mifery; and the pain... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...there is no fpectacle we fo eagerly purfue, as that of fome uncommon and grievous calamity ; fo that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or whether...to it in hiftory, it always touches with delight; but it is not an unmixed delight, but blended with no fmall uneaftnefs. The delight we have in fuch... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pages
...there is no fpedlacle we fo eagerly purfue, as that of fome uncommon and grievous calamity ; fo that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or whether...to it in hiftory, it always touches with delight; but it is not an unmixed delight, but blended with no fmall uneafinefs. The delight we have in fuch... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...there is no fpe£tacle we fo eagerly purfue, as that of fome uncommon and grievous calamity ; fo that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or whether they are turned back to it in hiflory, it always touches with delight. This is not an unmixed delight, but blended with no fmall... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...there is no fpeclacle we fo eagerly purfue, as that of fome uncommon and grievous calamity; fo that whether the misfortune is before our eyes^ Or whether...hiftory, it always touches with delight. This is not an uninixed delight, but blended with no fmall urteafijaefs. The delight we have in fuch things, hinders... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...that of fome uncommon and grievous calamity; fo that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or or whether they are turned back to it in hiftory,...not an unmixed delight, but blended with no fmall uneafi» »efs. The delight we have in fuch things, hinders US from fhunning fcenes of mifery ; and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 pages
...there is no spectacle we so eagerly pursue, as that of some uncommon and grievous calamity ; so that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or whether they are turned back to it in history, it always touches with delight. This is not an unmixed delight, but blended with no small... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pages
...so that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or whether they are turned back to it in history, it always touches with delight. This is not an unmixed delight, but blended with no small uneasiness. The delight we have in such things, hinders us from shunning scenes of misery ; and... | |
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But the case is widely different with the greater part of mankind; there is no spectacle we so eagerly pursue as that of some uncommon and grievous calamity; so that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or whether they are turned back to it in history,... 
