 ... 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...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 2771849Full view - About this book
 | George Washington Burnap - American essays - 1845 - 404 pages
...understanding ratines, as necessary to cover the 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. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen but a woman, a woman but an animal, and an animal... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English literature - 1849 - 278 pages
...owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation,...bear the calm eye of meditation. One of the greatest proofs of Burke's originality as a rhetorician, is that his speeches are so effective on perusal. There... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 608 pages
...owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation,...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. tion, corrupting jurisprudence by destroying its simplicity. The murder of a king, or a queen, or a... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pages
...owns and the understanding ratines as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation,...as -a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. " On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman, a woman is but an animal,... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 590 pages
...owns and the understanding ratifies (as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation),...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. " On this scheme of things a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman, a woman is but an animal, and... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 588 pages
...owns and the 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 he exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. " On this scheme of things a king is but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation,...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation,...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. E. BURKE 44O. KING CHARLES L — HIS ESCAPE EROM HAMPTON COURT, NOV. ii, AD 1647. The king found himself... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation,...exploded, as a ridiculous, absurd, and Antiquated fashion. Oil this scheme of things, a king is but a man ; a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation,...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. On this scheme of things a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal, and... | |
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