 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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