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The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections - Page 107
1821
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...vanquisher of laws to be subdued by manners. But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which...incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and softeu private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - 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...
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 2

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...
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How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition

Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1872 - 88 pages
...The Relative should be repeated when it is the Subject of several Verbs. " All the pleasing illusions -which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which...assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments that beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain ...

Edmund Burke - 1872 - 244 pages
...vanquisher of laws, to be subdued by manners. But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which...bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentunents which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire...
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School-composition: Being Advanced Language-lessons for Grammar Schools

William Swinton - 1874 - 140 pages
...The relative should be repeated when it is the subject of several verbs. "All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which...assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments that beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light...
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School-composition: Being Advanced Language-lessons for Grammar Schools

William Swinton - 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...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from the Best British and American ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pages
...soft collar of social esteem, compelled stern authority to submit to elegance, and gave a dominating vanquisher of laws, to be subdued by manners. But...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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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...changed. All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmunizrd the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the seiuiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire...
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Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881; copies 2-4, 1888

Edmund Burke - 1881 - 470 pages
...vanquisher of laws,, to be subdued by manners. But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which...from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the hearfowns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering...
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