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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Page 182
by Edmund Burke - 1804
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Sonnets, and Other Poems

William Lisle Bowles - English poetry - 1805 - 216 pages
...gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shadesof life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments...the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the dcfefts of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politicks the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,...off". All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrob* of a moral i«w" VoL. III. N agination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies,...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonised the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments...the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we 183 live in. If it should erer be totally extinguished, the loss I fear will be great....the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. AH the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns,...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 464 pages
...harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politicks the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,...the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1818 - 896 pages
...personal animosity. Religious controversy is not to be reckoned as though it furnished an occasion when " all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off*," as in such circumstances, no longer " necessary to cover the defect» of our naked, shivering nature...
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The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections

British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments...the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments...the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own...
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Four Years in France; Or: Narrative of an English Family's Residence There ...

Henry Digby Beste - Catholic converts - 1826 - 470 pages
...of Quinbus Flestrin, and numberless passages of his works, show how little he prized " the drapery furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination,...which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the nakedness of our weak shivering nature, and raise it to dignity in its own estimation."...
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The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments...the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own...
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