 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 Rumph - 2004 - 307 pages
...to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imaginat1on, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies...be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.14 Burke's magnificent jeremiad reverses Kant's verdict: ethical life springs not from the... | |
 | W. Wesley McDonald - 2004 - 260 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,...be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.15 By "evoking images," Kirk explained, "Burke sought to persuade by his appeal to the moral... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips, Mark Phillips, Gordon J. Schochet - 2004 - 348 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...dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.49 Although Burke shares the epistemological detachment... | |
 | Jared Lobdell - 2014 - 204 pages
...moral imagination — by our 'superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies,...shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our estimation.' "Drawn from centuries of human experience, these ideas ... are expressed afresh from age... | |
 | Richard Brookhiser - 2004 - 284 pages
...be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination ... to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature,...dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded...." A nation stripped of custom and ritual, Burke warned, could maintain order only by calculation and... | |
 | Jedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar - 2008 - 288 pages
...light and reason. ... All the super-added 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 own naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation." What did democracy do... | |
 | Hansjörg Bay, Kai Merten - 2006 - 674 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,...absurd, and antiquated fashion. On this scheme of thmgs, a kmg is but a man; a queen is but a woman; a woman is but an animal; and an animal not of the... | |
 | Chilton Williamson - 2005 - 372 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...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. By contrast, the Roman aspect of Burke's mind is typically reflected in a fluid and ceaseless stream... | |
 | Jennifer Pitts - 2009 - 400 pages
...to moral social life: "all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies...cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature" (WS 8:128). 2. Burke used Britain-British and England-English fairly interchangeably to describe the... | |
 | Harriet Devine, Harriet Devine Jump - 2003 - 456 pages
...be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies,...to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature ... are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. (Refs 171) 119 If this passage... | |
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