The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Henry G. Bohn, 1854 - 512 pages

or a View of the Miseries	1

PAGE	14

A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THe Origin of our Ideas of	49

Novelty	65

The final cause of the Difference between the Passions	76

Imitation	82

Ambition	83

The Recapitulation	84

Perfection not the cause of Beauty	129

How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to the Quali ties of the Mind	130

How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue	131

Beautiful Objects small	132

Smoothness	133

Delicacy	134

Beauty in Colour	135

Recapitulation	136

Ugliness	137

Grace ib XXIII Elegance and Speciousness	138

The Beautiful in Sounds	140

Taste and Smell	141

Of the efficient Cause of the Sublime and Beautiful	143

Association	144

Cause of Pain and Fear	145

Continued	146

How the Sublime is produced	147

Exercise necessary for the finer Organs	148

Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror	149

Unity why requisite to Vastness	150

The artificial Infinite	151

The Vibrations must be similar	152

The Effects of Succession in visual objects explained	153

Lockes Opinion concerning Darkness considered	155

Darkness terrible in its own nature	156

Why Darkness is terrible	157

The Effects of Blackness	158

Of Words	169

Poetry not strictly an imitative Art	177

OBSERVATIONS on a late PublICATION INTITULED THE PRESENT	185

THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS	306

SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION	382

SPEECHES AT MR BURKES ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL AND AT	438

SPEECH ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH	450

Titre	The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 Bohn's British classics Bohn's British classics: Burke's works The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke
Auteur	Edmund Burke
Édition	5, révisée
Éditeur	Henry G. Bohn, 1854
Original provenant de	Université de Harvard
Numérisé	21 mars 2008
Longueur	512 pages

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The Conclusion	85

Of the Passion caused by the Sublime	88

Terror ib III Obscurity	89

Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with regard to the Passions	90

Iv The same subject continued	91

Power	94

Privation	99

Vastness	100

Infinity	101

Succession and Uniformity	102

Magnitude in Building	103

Infinity in pleasing Objects	104

Difficulty ib XIII Magnificence	105

Light	106

Light in Building	108

Sound and Loudness	109

Suddenness ib XIX Intermitting	110

Smell and Taste Bitters and Stenches	111

Feeling Pain	112

Of Beauty	113

Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables	114

Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals	117

Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human Species	118

Proportion further considered	122

Fitness not the cause of Beauty	125

The real Effects of Fitness	127