 | Anne Norton - 2002 - 220 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Philip Auslander - 2003 - 448 pages
...changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized 254 the different shades of life, and which, by a bland...the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. . ." The radicals we face, gentlemen, speak disdainfully of "the puppet show of state," as once did... | |
 | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - 2003 - 324 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...which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into polIn October 1789 Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the young dauphin were forced by a crowd of women... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 pages
...soft collar of social esteem . . . which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonised the different shades of life, and which, by a bland...sentiments which beautify and soften private society' (Reflections, 171; my italics). At one point in the Enquiry, Burke explicitly distinguishes beauty... | |
 | Adriana Craciun - 2002 - 350 pages
...Burke 's lament that "[a] 11 the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal . . . are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason," the warning voiced by the "Verses" against disrupting the sexual as well as the political and religious... | |
 | Stephen Rumph - 2004 - 307 pages
...queen's bedchamber by the revolut1onaries: But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which...superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imaginat1on, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips, Mark Phillips, Gordon J. Schochet - 2004 - 348 pages
...pleasantly and self-consciously artful properties: But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which...soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new-conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.... | |
 | Richard Brookhiser - 2004 - 284 pages
...the enforced move of the king and queen to Paris as dangerous alterations of the social fabric. In "this new conquering empire of light and reason ......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,... | |
 | Jedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar - 2008 - 288 pages
...— which Lincoln and Whitman also abhorred above all else. He praised "all the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which...sentiments which beautify and soften private society, [which] are to be dissolved by this new empire of light and reason. ... All the super-added ideas,... | |
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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... 
