The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 539 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12).

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 539 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12).

I. Novelty 101

II.  Pain and Pleasure 102

III.  The Difference between the Removal of Pain and Positive
       Pleasure 104

IV.  Of Delight and Pleasure, as opposed to each other 106

V. Joy and Grief 108

VI.  Of the Passions which belong to Self-Preservation 110

VII.  Of the Sublime 110

VIII.  Of the Passions which belong to Society 111

IX.  The Final Cause of the Difference between the Passions
       belonging to Self-Preservation, and those which regard
       the Society of the Sexes 113

X. Of Beauty 114

XI.  Society and Solitude 115

XII.  Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition 116

XIII.  Sympathy 117

XIV.  The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of Others 119

XV.  Of the Effects of Tragedy 120

XVI.  Imitation 122

XVII.  Ambition 123

XVIII.  The Recapitulation 125

XIX.  The Conclusion 126

PART II.

I. Of the Passion caused by the Sublime 130

II.  Terror 130

III.  Obscurity 132

IV.  Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity
       with regard to the Passions 133

[IV.] The Same Subject continued 134

V. Power 138

VI.  Privation 146

VII.  Vastness 147

VIII.  Infinity 148

IX.  Succession and Uniformity 149

X. Magnitude in Building 152

XI.  Infinity in Pleasing Objects 153

XII.  Difficulty 153

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