18.12.2011

au!73 - delight

... and I shall take the best care I can, to use that word in no other sense. I am satisfied the word is not commonly used in this appropriated signification; but I thought it better to take up a word already known, and to limit its signification, than to introduce a new one which would not perhaps incorporate so well with the language. ...
(E.Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful)