"The mind of man has naturally a far greater alacrity and satisfaction in tracing resemblances than in searching for differences; because by making resemblances we produce <i>new images</i>, we unite, we create, we enlarge our stock; but in making distinctions we offer no food at all to the imagination; the task itself is more severe and irksome, and what pleasure we derive from it is something of a negative and indirect nature."
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
18 entries in the ESTC (1757, 1759, 1761, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1776, 1782, 1787, 1792, 1793, 1796, 1798).<br>
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See <u></u> (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T42248">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004807802.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Edmund Burke, <u>On the Sublime and Beautiful.</u> Vol. XXIV, Part 2. The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909&ndash;14; <a href="www.bartleby.com/24/2/">Bartleby.com</a>, 2001. <br>
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Reading Edmund Burke, <u>A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful and Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings</u>, ed. David Wommersly (London: Penguin Classics, 1998).