 ... 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
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 pages
...ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity 30 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 is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal, and... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - English language - 1900 - 702 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,...as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion." 2 3. Not only may the short sentence serve as a transition and compend ; it is equally useful as a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 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,...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, —... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...owns and the understanding ratif1es, 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, —... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 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. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal, and... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...owns, and the understanding ratines, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, m, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp 'd her...The golden hours on angel wings, Flew o'er me and m On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman; a woman is but an animal, and... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal, and... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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. On this scheme of things,-a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman; a woman is but an animal, and... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurdy and antiquated fashion. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman;... | |
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