...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...as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion." "Jacques-Henri Meister, Des premiers principes du systeme social appliques a la revolution presente...

...of Europe is extinguished forever ... All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it DECLARING PEACE; DECLARING WAR 87 to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous,...

...appealed to the young Walter Scott: 'All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All of the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our own naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our estimation, are to be exploded as ridiculous,...

...Irving Babbitt. In a famous passage in the Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke contrasted the "superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estima59. Spender, The Struggle of the Modern,...

...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be rudely exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. On this scheme of things, a king is...

...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...which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, . . . are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.22 1 As is well known to historians...