 | Henry Digby Beste - 1826 - 470 pagina’s
...of Quinbus Flestrin, and numberless passages of his works, show how little he prized " the drapery furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination,...the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the nakedness of our weak shivering nature, and raise it to dignity in its own estimation." I am well aware,... | |
 | 1833 - 784 pagina’s
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off — all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of...as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion." We really do not see before us, upon the most sober view of the case, any thing but a series of ignorant,... | |
 | 1833 - 796 pagina’s
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off — all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of...imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratines, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pagina’s
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off; all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of...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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pagina’s
...funiisli'ul from the wardrobe of a moral imayiimiion, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifie», aro to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. On this scheme of things, a king... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pagina’s
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All interventien of the reasoning faculty ; but solely from our natural constitution, which Providence tho understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 548 pagina’s
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished 'from the wardrobe...imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratines, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 626 pagina’s
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of...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 - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...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... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1845 - 366 pagina’s
...drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding...defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise its dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd and antiquated fashion.... | |
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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,... 
