Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.


A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful. 6. ed (ed. 1770)

Edmund Burke Quotes

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less,...

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less,...

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less,...

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less,...