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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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Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994

Patrick Brantlinger - Business & Economics - 1996 - 308 pages
...notes "how greatly night adds to our dread" and then goes on to say "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 then mentions the closely related manner in which "despotic governments,...
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Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820

Emma Clery, Robert Miles - Fiction - 2000 - 322 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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From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology II

Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - History - 2004 - 400 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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Le lierre et la chauve-souris: réveils gothiques : émergence du roman noir ...

Elizabeth Durot-Boucé - English fiction - 2004 - 292 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. »42 La nuit enveloppe tout de ses contours incertains. « Sublime maîtresse...
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 574 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 Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 574 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 talcs concerning such sorts of beings. Those despotic governments which are founded on the passions...
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Spectres des Lumières : du frissonnement au frisson: Mutations gothiques du ...

Elizabeth Boucé - 209 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. » fantômes.73 La nuit est propice aux illusions. Dans l'obscurité, le sujet...
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