 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
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1887 - 598 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. Ou tin's scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman, a woman is but an animal, —... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1888 - 686 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. 5. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but 55. fellows, equals. j the French... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - English language - 1889 - 332 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. f,5 On this scheme of things, a king is but a man ; a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 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...woman ; a woman is but an animal : and an animal not 10 of the highest order. All homage paid to the sex in general as such, and without distinct views,... | |
 | English language - 1891 - 120 pages
...in our own estimation are to be exploded as a 18 ridiculous absurd and antiquated fashion. 10 (3), 8 on this scheme of things a king is but a man a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an 30 animal and an animal not of the highest order. 13 all homage paid to the sex in general as such... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 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...ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. . . . On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings,... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1893 - 286 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. — Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 90, Macmillan's edition. Such expressions as... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1894 - 686 pages
...dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. 5. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen...order. All homage paid to the sex in general as such, n and without distinct views, is to be regarded as romance and folly. Regicide and parricide and sacrilege... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Reference - 1898 - 478 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...queen is but a woman; a woman is but an animal; and an animalj not of the highest order. All homage paid to the sex in general as such, and without distinct... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - English language - 1900 - 704 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." 2 3. Not only may the short sentence serve as a transition and compend ; it is equally useful as a... | |
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