 It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration, and chiefly excites our passions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the most striking causes affect but little. It is thus with the vulgar ; and all men are as the vulgar in what they do not...  Laokoon - Strona xcviiautor: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1910 - Liczba stron: 470Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - Liczba stron: 556
...nature, why the obscure idea, when properly conveyed, should be more affecting than the clear. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration,...chiefly excites our passions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the most striking causes affoct but little. It is thus with the vulgar ; and all men are as the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1764 - Liczba stron: 458
...and chiefly excites our paffions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the moft ftriking caufes affecl: but little. It is thus with the vulgar, and all men are as the vulgar in what theydo not underftand. The ideas of eternity, and infinity, are among the moft affecting we have, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1767 - Liczba stron: 368
...admiration, and chiefly excites our paffions. Knowledge and acquaintance makes the moftftriking caufes affect but little. It is thus with the vulgar, and all men are as the vulgar in what they do not underftand. The ideas of eternity, and infinity, are among the moft affecting we have; and perhaps... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - Liczba stron: 596
...admiration, and chiefly excites our paffions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the moft ftriking caufes affect but little. It is thus with the vulgar; and all men are as the vulgar in what they do not underftand. The ideas of eternity, and infinity, are among the moft affecting we have; and perhaps... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - Liczba stron: 604
...admiration, and chiefly excites our paffions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the moft ftriking caufes affect but little. It is thus with the vulgar; and all men are as the vulgar in what they do not underftand. The ideas of eternity, and infinity, are among the moft affecting we have ; and perhaps... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - Liczba stron: 674
...admiration, and chiefly excites our paffions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the moft ftriking caufes affeft but little, it is thus with the vulgar ; and all men are as the vulgar in what they do not underftand. The ideas of eternity, and infinity, are among the moft affefting we have ; and perhaps... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - Liczba stron: 366
...admiration, and chiefly excites our paffions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the moft ftriking caufes affect but little. It is thus with the vulgar; and all men are as the vulgar in what they do not underftand. The ideas of eternity, and infinity, are among the moft affecting we have : and perhaps... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - Liczba stron: 366
...excites our paffions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the moft ftriking caufes affect but little. Itjs thus with the vulgar; and all men are as the vulgar in what they do not underftand. The ideas of eternity, and infmity, are" among the moft affecting we have : and perhaps... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - Liczba stron: 520
...things that causes all our admiration, and chiefly excites our passions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the most striking causes affect but little. It is...with the vulgar ; and all men are as the vulgar in xvhat they do not understand. The ideas of eternity, and infinity, are among the most affecting we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - Liczba stron: 522
...nature, why the obscure idea, when properly conveyed, should be more affecting than the clear. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration,...chiefly excites our passions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the most striking causes affect but little. It is 'thus with the vulgar ; and all men are as the... | |
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