 All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 2771849Full view - About this book
 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 590 pages
...are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of Hie is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded, ideas,...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, absurd,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1855 - 632 pages
...politfcs the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent...superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagina, tion, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects... | |
 | John William Wallace - Law - 1855 - 438 pages
...title), or Cases, tiful language: the decent drapery of life is rudely torn off; the superailded, idcns, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination,...necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, ore exploded as n ridiculous, absurd, antiquated... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent...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, absurd,... | |
 | John William Wallace - Printing - 1863 - 142 pages
...tears away the decent drapery of life, and would explode with ridicule " the fuperadded ideas furnifhed from the " wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart " owns and the underftanding ratifies as neceflary to " cover the defects of our naked, mivering nature, " and to... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent...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, absurd,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1865 - 586 pages
...politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent...understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of onr naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1865 - 604 pages
...beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conREVOLUTION IN FRANCE. 333 quering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery...a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the imderstanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...politics the sentiments which beautify and softeu private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent...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, absurd,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason ; all the decent...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, absurd,... | |
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