 ... 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
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of -our naked, shivering nature, BURKF. : Kejlections on the Revolution in trance, 1790. We are but too apt to consider things in the... | |
 | Theophilus Dwight Hall - 1880 - 228 pages
...understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects 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." " On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings,... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it dignity in our own estimation, are to be 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, the French revolutionists... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 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 Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the 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. 5. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but 55. fcllown, equals. : t|,ej?rench... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1888 - 686 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. 5. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but 55. fellows, equals. j the French... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - English language - 1902 - 324 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. 65 On this scheme of things, a king is but a man ; a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal,... | |
 | English language - 1891 - 120 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...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... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 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 the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings,... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1893 - 312 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,...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. — Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 90, Macmillan's edition. Such expressions as... | |
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