...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. (6) These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like the rays of light which pierce into a dense...

...understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise ale of woe, As ever met a Briton's ear ! 'sky 'lost...sang wi' joy this former day, He, weeping, wail'd aji animal; and an animal not of the highest order. All homage paid to the sex in general as such,...

...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...things a king is but a man ; a queen is but a woman ja woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order. All homage paid to the sex in general...

...understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise ROM THE EPILOGUE And rise, О moon, from yonder WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) THE TASK FROM BOOK I There often wanders one, whom better days Saw better...

...the sexes and among women of different rank. Burke (1984) laments the democratic leveling in France. "On this scheme of things, a king is but a man; a...an animal; and an animal not of the highest order" (171). Wollstonecraft confirms this new order by writing, "All true, Sir; if she is not more attentive...

...power. The graphic equivalence of the king's head with the dead bird recalls Burke 's famous phrase that 'On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a...is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order.'24 The fact that the king's head is also a powerless male head is significant too (figuring...

...1578-1799, ed. Moira Ferguson (Bloomington, 1985), pp. 402, 410. this scheme of things," he lamented, "a king is but a man; a queen is but a woman; a woman...an animal; and an animal not of the highest order." For Burke, a binary understanding of gender was horrifyingly crude. To put Marie Antoinette in the...

...Heidegger has called the "hermeneutic as-structure" of the world. 9 Within such a "mechanical" philosophy, "a king is but a man; a queen is but a woman. . . . Regicide, and parricide, and sacrilege, are but fictions of superstition. . . . The murder of...

...with all that is fearsome in what it constructs as woman and beast, in beast-woman.' (19). Cf. Burke, 'On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a...an animal, and an animal not of the highest order' (67). 16. Burke. Reflections, 66. 17. Burke 's apotheosis of Marie Antoinette is also, in pan, a response...

...understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. (B p. 171) But Southey has, like Paine, an eye for both the plumage and the dying bird, and moreover,...