 By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and its ensigns armorial. It has its gallery of portraits; its monumental inscriptions; its...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 182edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Costas Douzinas, Lynda Nead - Art - 1999 - 292 pages
...heritage, on the contrary, that provides the sole guarantee of liberty. In Burke's England, liberty "has its gallery of portraits, its monumental inscriptions, its records, evidences, and titles."3 The contrast — so troubling to Burke — between English respect for JONATHAN P. RIBNER... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips - History - 2000 - 390 pages
...sense of habitual native dignity," Burke wrote. "By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a...ancestors. It has its bearings, and its ensigns armorial." 4 The reader who approaches such passages looking to understand tradition as a historical process of... | |
 | Adriana Craciun, Kari Lokke, Kari E. Lokke - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 414 pages
...land of inherited liberties:18 because of this tradition, "our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors" (30). Many of Juliet's difficulties result from the fact that she has no access to this tradition.... | |
 | Jane Austen - Fiction - 2001 - 502 pages
...who are the first acquirers of any distinction. By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a...inscriptions; its records, evidences, and titles. We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which nature teaches us to revere... | |
 | Clara Tuite - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 272 pages
...are the first acquirers of any distinction. By this means our liberty becomes an imposing freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a...inscriptions; its records, evidences, and titles. We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which nature teaches us to revere... | |
 | Raphaël Ingelbien - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 268 pages
...Philip Larkin. 162. 64 Heaney. The Government of the Tongue, 2 1 . 45 English tradition. Burke writes, "carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a...ancestors. It has its bearings, and its ensigns armorial ... its monumental inscriptions; its records, evidences and titles" (Reflections, 32). The link between... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - Fiction - 2004 - 612 pages
...who are the first acquirers of any distinction. By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a...and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and ensigns armorials. 2 It has its gallery of portraits; its monumental inscriptions; its records, evidences... | |
 | Christopher Kent Rovee - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 284 pages
...British nation as a family, he paints the explicitly masculine face of "liberty": "Our liberty ... carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a...inscriptions; its records, evidences, and titles. We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which nature teaches us to revere... | |
 | Matthew S. Buckley - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 222 pages
...to Burke, inspire "a sense of habitual native dignity." British liberty becomes "a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a...monumental inscriptions, its records, evidences, and titles."4 The effects of such liberty are more than merely elevating, for that dignified elevation... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...distinction. By this means our lioerty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majesti; aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors....monumental inscriptions, its records, evidences, and tides. We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature ceaches us... | |
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