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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)

PART II
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But let it be considered that hardly anything can strike the mind with its greatness, which does not make some sort of approach towards infinity; which nothing can do whilst we are able to perceive its bounds; but to see an object distinctly, and to perceive its bounds, is one and the same thing.

A clear idea is therefore another name for a little idea.

There is a passage in the book of Job amazingly sublime, and this sublimity is principally due to the terrible uncertainty of the thing described: _In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

Then a spirit passed before my face.

The hair of my flesh stood up.


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