The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)Burke, Edmund
Philosophy
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
Burke, Edmund
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820; Political science -- Early works to 1800
IV. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human Species 172
V. Proportion further considered 178
VI. Fitness not the Cause of Beauty 181
VII. The Real Effects of Fitness 184
VIII. The Recapitulation 187
IX. Perfection not the Cause of Beauty 187
X. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to the
Qualities of the Mind 188
XI. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue 190
XII. The Real Cause of Beauty 191
XIII. Beautiful Objects Small 191
XIV. Smoothness 193
XV. Gradual Variation 194
XVI. Delicacy 195
XVII. Beauty in Color 196
XVIII. Recapitulation 197
XIX. The Physiognomy 198
XX. The Eye 198
XXI. Ugliness 199
XXII. Grace 200
XXIII. Elegance and Speciousness 200
XXIV. The Beautiful in Feeling 201
XXV. The Beautiful in Sounds 203
XXVI. Taste and Smell 205
XXVII. The Sublime and Beautiful compared 205
PART IV.
I. Of the Efficient Cause of the Sublime and Beautiful 208
II. Association 209
III. Cause of Pain and Fear 210
IV. Continued 212
V. How the Sublime is produced 215
VI. How Pain can be a Cause of Delight 215
VII. Exercise necessary for the Finer Organs 216
VIII. Why Things not Dangerous sometimes produce a
Passion like Terror 217
IX. Why Visual Objects of Great Dimensions are Sublime 217
X. Unity, why requisite to Vastness 219
XI. The Artificial Infinite 220
XII. The Vibrations must be Similar 222
XIII. The Effects of Succession in Visual Objects explained 222
XIV. Locke's Opinion concerning Darkness considered 225
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