 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 Calcutta Review - Side 3611849Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Christopher J. P. Smith - 1997 - 394 sider
...new 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 of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - 1998 - 252 sider
...new 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 of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked... | |
 | Jeffrey C. Isaac - 1998 - 268 sider
...new conquering empire oflight and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination ... as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in... | |
 | Michael Simpson - 1998 - 500 sider
...of how this "age of Chivalry" is displaced: All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added 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... | |
 | David Lorne Macdonald - 2000 - 340 sider
...the end of the age of chivalry, Burke says: '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... | |
 | Steve Martinot - 2001 - 382 sider
...(RRF, 86-87). Nowadays, Burke laments, the sophisters and economists and calculators have "taken over": All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratines as necessary to cover the defects of our naked,... | |
 | Anne Norton - 2002 - 220 sider
...nobility, the church — would be called to account. "All the decent drapery of life is to be torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination ... to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation,... | |
 | 2002 - 298 sider
...things should be otherwise. As Edmund Burke wrote, "All the decent drapery of life is to be torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination... to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation,... | |
 | David Kuchta - 2002 - 314 sider
...illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal," as Edmund Burke well understood them, "... 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,... | |
 | David Carvounas - 2002 - 142 sider
..."temporary possessors" think that "all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off' and that "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,... | |
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