THE WORKS

OF

EDMUND BURKE.

VOL. I.

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY.

AN ESSAY ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL
POLITICAL MISCELLANIES.

LELAND ST

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THE WORKS

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EDMUND BURKE.

VOL. I.

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY.

AN ESSAY ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL
POLITICAL MISCELLANIES.

LONDON

GEORGE BELL & SONS

1902

LELAND S

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY: or, a View of the Miseries

and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial

Society

A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN of our Ideas OF THE

SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL; with an Introductory Discourse con-

cerning Taste

11. The Difference between the Removal of Pain, and po-

sitive Pleasure

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

v. Joy and Grief

VI. Of the Passions which belong to Self-preservation

VII. Of the Sublime

VIII. Of the Passions which belong to Society

Ix. The final cause of the Difference between the Passions

belonging to Self-preservation, and those which regard the

Society of the Sexes

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XI. Society and Solitude

78

XII. Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition

ib.

XIII. Sympathy

79

XIV. The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others

xv. Of the Effects of Tragedy

ib.

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