 | Marshall Berman - 1999 - 300 Seiten
...illusions that made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life ... are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire...to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our weak... | |
 | Eve Darian-Smith - 1999 - 292 Seiten
...gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments...by this new conquering empire of light and reason" (quoted in Daniels 1988: 46; see also Lock 1985). LAW AND LANDSCAPE As discussed above, English law,... | |
 | David Lorne Macdonald - 2000 - 340 Seiten
...it is as often bathetic as it is terrible. In lamenting the end of the age of chivalry, Burke says: 'All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn...the heart 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... | |
 | Steve Martinot - 2001 - 382 Seiten
...(RRF, 86-87). Nowadays, Burke laments, the sophisters and economists and calculators have "taken over": All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratines as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity... | |
 | Norma Thompson - 2008 - 256 Seiten
..."pleasing illusions" and regrets that henceforth they are to be dissolved (67). But in his lament that "all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off," Burke is doing something considerably more powerful than appealing to the conventions of an earlier... | |
 | David Kuchta - 2002 - 314 Seiten
...illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal," as Edmund Burke well understood them, "... all the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature."16 Rather than dismissing this wardrobe... | |
 | 2002 - 298 Seiten
...will that 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 Carvounas - 2002 - 142 Seiten
...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." Pleasing or not, these illusions have been cruelly dispersed by the "new conquering empire of light... | |
 | Anne Norton - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...behind "pleasing illusions . . . furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination." As he saw it, "all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off," revealing "our naked shivering nature."8 For Carlyle there was merit in the stripping away. "Shams... | |
 | Julia V. Douthwaite - 2002 - 338 Seiten
...institutions as a mad passion to discard wisdom for a brutish state of ignorance, where, as he wrote, "all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off" and "the defects of our naked shivering nature" are exposed for all to see.89 (Maistre concurred with... | |
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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... 
