 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1926 - 236 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... | |
 | Lewis A. Coser - 1988 - 340 pages
...rudely torn off. The superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of moral imagination which [are] necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd and antiquated fashion: Burke was rebutted in his turn by Thomas Paine, who wrote in Common Sense that "government. like dress,... | |
 | Dietmar Schloss - 1992 - 158 pages
...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...be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.19 According to Burke, life in feudal times was embedded in a cultural and moral order. Different... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 pages
...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...dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man; a queen... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Paul-Gabriel Boucé - 1993 - 212 pages
...culture : But now all is to be changed .... All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. AU the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature . . . are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and anûquated fashion. Burke's Reflections on the... | |
 | Steven Bruhm - 1994 - 210 pages
...ideal spectator would reclothe the naked body and soften the horror of the scene. He would provide "All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our estimation" (171). Burke's conservative response to the Revolution argues a restrained reclothing of... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 pages
...deccm drapery oflifc is to he rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrohe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and...to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature ... are to he exploded as a ridicnlous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.1 Refleetions on the Revolution... | |
 | Patricia Carr Brückmann - 1997 - 204 pages
...represented it long ago in the Tale: "All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as mercenary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to a dignity in our own... | |
 | Christopher J. P. Smith - 1997 - 394 pages
...and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to...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,... | |
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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,... 
