“ Whenever we are formed by nature to any active purpose, the passion which animates us to it is attended with delight, or a pleasure of some kind, let the subject-matter be what it will ”
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). copy citation
Author | Edmund Burke |
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Source | A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful |
Topic | passion pleasure |
Date | 1757 |
Language | English |
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