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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,... "
Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical - Page 174
by Edmond Burke - 1815
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A manual of English composition

Theophilus Dwight Hall - 1880 - 228 pages
...decent drapery of life is to b 3 rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardroom of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the...of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to a dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion."...
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A handbook of English dictation

English dictation - 1881 - 156 pages
...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, are to be exploded as a ridiculous,...
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Swinton's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 6

William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery 3 of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation,4 are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated5 fashion. 1 fellows, equals,...
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Sixth Or Classic English Reader

William Swinton - 1885 - 628 pages
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery 3 of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation,4 are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated5 fashion. 1 fellowrs, equals,...
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Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...con-o* quering 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...defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to?t dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion....
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Burke: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881

Edmund Burke - 1886 - 494 pages
...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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1887 - 598 pages
...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...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, —...
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Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1888 - 686 pages
...con-(-i quering 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...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...
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Handbook of Rhetorical Analysis: Studies in Style and Invention : Designed ...

John Franklin Genung - 1889 - 332 pages
...drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a 60 moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding...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,...
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Handbook of Rhetorical Analysis: Studies in Style and Invention. Designed to ...

John Franklin Genung - 1890 - 328 pages
...furnished from the wardrobe of a 60 moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the under. standing ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. 65 On this scheme of things, a king is but a man ; a queen '. is but a woman; a woman is but an animal,...
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