...rightly feared what would happen when the "decent drapery of life" was "rudely torn off," showing that a "queen is but a woman; a woman is but an animal; and an animal not of the highest order."s7 Nevertheless, by 1793, the penchant for the romantic style had become the predominant mode...

...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.34 Seen in the cold light of democratic reason, in other words, the Emperor did indeed have...

...Women's brains are in a certain sense ... in their wombs. Havelock Ellis, 1859-1939 (Mills 1991: 269) A woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order. Edmund Burke, 1729-97 (Mills 1991: 27) Man should be trained for war, and woman for the recreation...

...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 ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. (Reflections, 171) Hence the obsessiveness with which Burke...

...follies." The Revolution had unleashed "insolent irréligion in opinions," including the heresy that "a king is but a man; a queen is but a woman." It also had authorized "treasons, robberies, rapes, assassinations, slaughters, and burnings" throughout...

...egalitarianism and the rights of man but makes man and woman (and specifically woman) something less than human: 'On this scheme of things, a king is but a man; a...is but an animal; and an animal not of the highest order.'-y Humanity is dependent precisely on qualities such as illusion, romance, imagination, chivalry,...

...Burke had intuited some of this in his Reflections. In the new "scheme of things," he had written, "a queen is but a woman; a woman is but an animal; and an animal not of the highest order." 54 But Burke was a royalist, who valued queens more than ordinary women. Morris respected the queen...

...in all its "naked, shivering nature." What sort of illusions? Burke illustrates: to the philosophes "a queen is but a woman, a woman is but an animal — and an animal not of the highest order."" Calling such beliefs "illusions," Burke ratifies through his choice of word the cynical view he means...

...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. The vanity, restlessness, petulance, and spirit of intrigue of several petty cabals, who attempt to...

...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. By contrast, the Roman aspect of Burke 's mind is typically reflected in a fluid and ceaseless stream...