 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 Edmund Burke - Page 99by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | 1805 - 436 pages
...fcheme of things, to borrow an expreflion from a beautiful and Jublime writer, a Dutcheis or Countefs " is but a woman, a woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the higheft order." There has not been in my time fuch an attack upon the privileged diforde rs ; and 1... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded...but a man ; a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but ah animal ; and an animal not of the highest order. All homage paid to the sex in general as such,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 520 pages
...understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded...things, a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman ; a women is but an animal ; and an animal not of the highest order. All homage paid to the sex in general... | |
 | 1833 - 796 pages
...understanding ratines, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded,...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,... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...understanding ratifies as 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, and antiquated fashion." It is generally admitted that the most successful oratory disappoints in the reading, not only from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded...antiquated fashion. On this scheme of things, a king is hut a man, a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal ; and an animal not of the highest order.... | |
 | Education - 1840 - 468 pages
...our vulgar irreverent way of talking »bout the Person of our Sovereign ; which truly implies, that " a Queen is but a woman, a woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order;" and our vulgar utilitarian way of thinking (derived from the pseudo-philosophers of the last century,... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1840 - 446 pages
...making the understanding every thing, and the heart nothing. " On this scheme of things," he cried, " a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman, a woman but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order; all the decent drapery of life (he said) was... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 626 pages
...understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. In this essay all that can be expected of us is to define the proper sphere of Jurisprudence, to show... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded...fashion. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a OF EDMUND BURKE. 151 queen is but a woman ; a woman is hut an animal ; and an animal not of the highest... | |
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