 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...  Southern Literary Messenger - Halaman 2771849Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels - 1988 - 310 halaman
...Burke observed, light was refracted to create a unifying atmosphere. But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle,...dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason.18 Burke warned the Duke of Bedford, renowned for his 'experimental philosophy' in both politics... | |
 | Lewis A. Coser - 1988 - 340 halaman
...spokesman for conservative thought. Edmund Burke. who lamented that. in the age of the French Revolution. all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. The superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of moral imagination which [are] necessary to cover... | |
 | Dietmar Schloss - 1992 - 158 halaman
...performed this 'stripping' on a large scale. In a well-known passage of the Reflections, Burke complains: All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle,...harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 halaman
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom" (89). Burke most feared the loss of "all the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal," which were being "dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason": On this scheme of things,... | |
 | Paul-Gabriel Boucé - 1993 - 212 halaman
...eighteenth-century attitudes. The "pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, ... and... incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society" are the larger, political counterpart of the effect of a liberal gentlemanly education as seen by Fielding... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 halaman
...reason, but of man's primitive state. The full paragraph reads as follows: But now all is to he changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle,...assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which heautify and soften private society, are to he dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and... | |
 | John Arundel Barnes - 1994 - 222 halaman
...politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society,' illusions which in France were 'to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason'. Despite his patrician stance Burke did not confine these illusions to any segment of society, unlike... | |
 | Steven Bruhm - 1994 - 210 halaman
...argues, is a tasteful clothing of society in proper behavior and sentiment, but in the Revolution, "All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off" ( 171 ) . Burke's fear that the "decent drapery" be violently removed is most clearly expressed in... | |
 | James Schmidt - 1996 - 582 halaman
...agreement, then, that there is something sinister about the light it casts. Burke complained that ilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify...dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason.161 Hamann dismissed the Enlightenment as "a mere northern light," a "cold, unfruitful moonlight"... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 halaman
...elegance, and gave a domination 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 harmonised the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics... | |
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