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" But now all is to be changed. 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... "
The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections - Page 107
1821
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English Prose (1137-1890)

John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 572 pages
...liberal, which harmonised the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorlx1rated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften...All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn oil. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart...
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...vanquisher cf laws to be subdued by manners. But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing iilii-i.ni.i, aniel To a feast of our tribe ; Macllse. The characters are Imaginary. So ,.., . ..._ «i *iii also AH the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the...
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Aristocracy and Justice: Shelburne Essays, Ninth Series

Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 538 pages
...his famous tirade on the fall of Marie Antoinette. "Now all is changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which...furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination. ..." To this Paine retorted with terrible incision. Ridiculing the lamentation over the French Queen...
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Aristocracy and Justice

Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 266 pages
...his famous tirade on the fall of Marie Antoinette. "Now all is changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which...furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination...." To this Paine retorted with terrible incision. Ridiculing the lamentation over the French Queen as...
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Shelburne Essays: Aristocracy and justice

Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 272 pages
...his famous tirade on the fall of Marie Antoinette. "Now all is changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which...furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination. ..." To this Paine retorted with terrible incision. Ridiculing the lamentation over the French Queen...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a blind en let the louns 1 beware, Sir ; There's wooden walls...Criffel sink in Solway, Ere we permit a foreign foe On B oi' life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...vanquisher of laws, to be subdued by manners. But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions, ll-known epigram: — "Warum treibt blind assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,...
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Democracy and Leadership

Irving Babbitt - 1924 - 388 pages
...and forgets the dying bird. All the decent drapery of life, Burke complains of the new philosophy, is to be rudely torn off. "All the super-added ideas,...furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, . . . are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion." The apostles of the rights...
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Machiavelli to Marx: Modern Western Political Thought

Dante Germino - 1979 - 416 pages
...revolutionaries of his day propose "rudely" to tear off this salutary cover thrown over man's "natural" defects: All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn...the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects...
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Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal ...

Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 pages
...glorious link between submission and freedom: But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which...by this new conquering empire of light and reason (p. 114). "The empire of light and reason" that insists on seeing "things as they are" - the wishful...
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