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" ... how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings. "
The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke, Selected from the Writings ... - Page 234
by Edmund Burke - 1798 - 499 pages
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 1

English literature - 1827 - 698 pages
...obscurity, that it is necessary to make any tiling terrible, and notices " how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect...which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings." He represents also, that no person " seems better to have understood the secret...
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A philosophical enquiry [&c.].

Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...considers how greatly night adds to our dread in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect...which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings. Those despotic governments which are founded on the passions of men, and principally...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 748 pages
...considers how greatly night adds to our dread, in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to die popular tales concerning such sorts of beings. Those despotick governments, which are founded on...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...considers how greatly night adds to our dread, in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts v p v v u such sorts of beings. Those despotic governments, which are founded on the passions of men, and principally...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 18

Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 pages
...obscurity, that it is necessary to make any thing terrible, and notices, " how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect...which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings." He represents also, that no person " seems better to have understood the secret...
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Periodical Criticism, Volume 2

Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 pages
...obscurity, that it is necessary to make any thing terrible, and notices, " how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect...which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings." He represents also, that no person " seems better to have understood the secret...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...considers how greatly night adds to our dread, in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts h what evidently is so ? Does this sort of chicanery become us ? The people are the such sorts of beings. Those despotick governments, which are founded on the passions of men, and principally...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1844 - 232 pages
...cases of danger, and i* V — ,, , ...---*-»,« — », ,g. . .,.,.how much the notions"of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect...which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings. Those despotic governments which are founded on the passions of men, and principally...
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Miscellaneous Prose Works, Volume 18

Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pages
...obscurity, that it is necessary to make any thing terrible, and notices, " how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect...which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings." He represents also, that no person " seems better to have understood the secret...
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A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1856 - 238 pages
...considers how greatly night adds to our dread in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect...which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings. Those despotic governments which are founded on the passions of men, and principally...
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