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... The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 96by Edmund Burke - 1826Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1865 - 586 pages
...harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,...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
...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 by this new conREVOLUTION IN FRANCE. 333 quering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1868 - 286 pages
...harmonised the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,...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... | |
| English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,...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... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...according to square miles and numerical unities. We have a horror of that cynical coarseness by which ' all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off,' by which ' now a queen is but a woman, and a woman is but an animal,' * which cuts down chivalric and... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...according to square miles and numerical unities. We have a horror of that cynical coarseness by which ' all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off,' by which ' now a queen is but a woman, and a woman is but an animal,' 1 which cuts down chivalric and... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1872 - 244 pages
...different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentunents which beautify and soften private society, are to...naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity m our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. On this scheme... | |
| Edwin Abbott Abbott - English language - 1872 - 88 pages
...shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments that beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved...by this new conquering empire of light and reason." 36. Repeat a Preposition after an intervening Conjunction, especially if a Verb and an Object also... | |
| William Swinton - English language - 1874 - 180 pages
...shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments that beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved...by this new conquering empire of light and reason." 108. Repeat a Preposition after an intervening Conjunction, especially if a Verb and an Object also... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1876 - 452 pages
...harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,...the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owus and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature,... | |
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