The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke

C.C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 - Great Britain

Contents

• A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime: 53
• SECT: 77
• Feeling Pain: 100
• PART III: 127
• The real effects of Fitness: 143
• SECT PAGE XIII Beautiful objects small: 148
• Smoothness: 150
• Delicacy: 152
• Beauty in color: 153
• Recapitulation ib XIX The Physiognomy: 154
• Ugliness: 155
• Grace: 156
• The Beautiful in Feeling: 157
• The Beautiful in Sounds: 158
• Taste and Smell: 160
• PART IV: 162
• Association: 163
• Cause of Pain and Fear: 164
• Continued: 165
• How the Sublime is produced: 167
• Exercise necessary for the finer Organs: 169
• Why visual objects of great dimensions are Sublime: 170
• Unity why requisite to Vastness: 171
• The artificial Infinite: 172
• The vibrations must be similar: 173
• The effects of succession in visual objects explained: 174
• Lockes opinion concerning Darkness considered: 176
• Darkness terrible in its own nature: 177
• Why darkness is terrible: 178
• The effects of Blackness: 179
• The effects of Blackness moderated: 181
• The physical cause of Love: 182
• Why Smoothness is Beautiful: 183
• Sweetness its nature: 184
• Sweetness relaxing: 186
• Variation why beautiful: 187
• Concerning Smallness: 188
• General words before ideas: 195
• Poetry not strictly an imitative: 202
• A Short Account of a late Short Administration: 207
• Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents: 347
• Speech on American Taxation: 433

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1; The Works of Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke
• Author: Edmund Burke
• Publisher: C.C. Little & J. Brown, 1839
• Original from: The British Library
• Digitized: Nov 7, 2017