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"Liquid"
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Politics of Author:
"From Rockinghamite Whig to Anti-Jacobin"
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"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1757
"The tossing of the sea remains after the storm; and when this remain of horror has entirely subsided, all the passion, which the accident raised, subsides along with it; and the mind returns to its usual state of indifference"
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1757
"If we can direct the lights we derive from such exalted speculations, upon the humbler field of the imagination, whilst we investigate the springs and trace the course of our passions, we may not only communicate to the taste a sort of philosophical solidity, but we may reflect back on severer s...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)