THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE

1803

Contents

• or a View: 1
• A Philofophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas: 81
• SECT PAGE: 92
• A Philofophical Inquiry into the Origin of: 121
• Of Delight and Pleaſure as oppofed to each: 128
• Magnificence: 187
• Light: 190
• Light in Building: 192
• Colour confidered as productive of the Sub lime: 194
• Suddennefs: 195
• Intermitting: 196
• The Cries of Animals: 197
• Smell and Tafte Bitters and Stenches: 198
• Feeling Pain 290: 200
• PART III: 203
• tables: 205
• Proportion not the cauſe of Beauty in Animals: 210
• Proportion not the cauſe of Beauty in the Hu man Species: 212
• Proportion further confidered: 220
• Fitneſs not the caufe of Beauty: 222
• The real effects of Fitneſs: 227
• The Recapitulation: 230
• Perfection not the cauſe of Beauty: 231
• How far the idea of Beauty may be applied to the qualities of the mind: 232
• virtue: 234
• The real caufe of Beauty: 235
• Beautiful objects ſmall: 236
• Smoothneſs: 237
• Gradual Variation: 238
• SECT PAGE XIV Lockes opinion concerning Darkness confi dered: 276
• Darkneſs terrible in its own nature: 278
• Why Darkneſs is terrible: 279
• The effects of Blacknefs: 281
• The effects of Blacknefs moderated: 284
• The phyfical cauſe of Love: 285
• Why Smoothnefs is Beautiful: 287
• Sweetneſs its nature: 288
• Sweetneſs relaxing: 290
• Variation why beautiful: 293
• Concerning Smallneſs: 295
• Of colour: 299
• PART V: 301
• The common effect of Poetry not by raiſing ideas of things: 302
• General words before ideas: 305
• The effect of Words: 306
• Examples that words may affect without raiſing images: 308
• Poetry not ftrictly an imitative art: 316

Bibliographic information

• Title: THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE
• Published: 1803
• Original from: Library of Catalonia
• Digitized: Apr 23, 2009