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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 Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...greatly night adds to our dread, in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and gohlins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of heings. Those despotic governments, which are founded on the passions of men, and principally...
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Works, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1865 - 572 pages
...dread, hi all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can Harm clear ideas, affect minds 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 Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1877 - 576 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 gi^e credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings. Those despotic governments which...
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Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama

Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1887 - 432 pages
...obscurity, that it is necessary to make anything 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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On Taste: On the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the French Revolution ...

Edmund Burke - 1909 - 498 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 Harvard Classics, Volume 24

Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 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 Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Volume 16

English philology - 1917 - 646 pages
...night adds to our dread, in all cases of danger, / and how much notions of ghosts and goblins, / ..( which none can form clear ideas, / affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings. /" Cadences, however, do not always occur at every point of punctuation; they...
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Gray: Poetry & Prose

Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1926 - 206 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 the popular tales. . . . No person seems better to have understood the secret of heightening, or of setting terrible things,...
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Uneasy Sensations: Smollett and the Body

Aileen Douglas - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 244 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 popular tales concerning such sorts of which the virtuous man learns from the villain that the world...
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The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory

Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Fiction - 1996 - 332 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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