 All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature,...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 94de Edmund Burke - 1807Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1799 - 468 pages
...Orgiafts of Bacchus, was, that their meetings were by night. From this they argued, that * On this fcheme of things, a king is but a man; a queen is but a woman. Burke's Reflefticnsj p. "*• they they were devoted to drunkennefs and debauchery. The votaries of.Bacchus,... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 216 pages
...to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies,...as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion." BURKE'S REFLECTIONS, p. 113, 114. p. 123. L. 5. Sweet native land! ivhose every haunt is dear. "ENGLAND,... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 208 pages
...to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defefls of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1805 - 216 pages
...to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the dcfefts of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be... | |
 | Henry Digby Beste - 1826 - 470 pages
...works, show how little he prized " the drapery furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the nakedness of our weak shivering nature, and raise it to dignity in its own estimation." I am well aware,... | |
 | 1833 - 784 pages
...be rudely torn off — all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies,...as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion." We really do not see before us, upon the most sober view of the case, any thing but a series of ignorant,... | |
 | 1833 - 796 pages
...furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratines, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering...as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion." We really do not see before us, upon the most sober view of the case, any thing buta series of ignorant,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...funiisli'ul from the wardrobe of a moral imayiimiion, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifie», aro to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. On this scheme of things, a king... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...to be rudely torn off; all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies...necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering natw«, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and tho framed in such a manner as to find either pleasure...It is by imitation far more than by precept, that hut a man, a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal ; and an animal not of the highest order.... | |
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