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"Male"
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Work title:
"Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"French Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Date: 1790
"All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1790
"If they find what they seek, and they seldom fail, they think it more wise to continue the prejudice, with the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice, and to leave nothing but the naked reason; because prejudice, with its reason, has a motive to give action to that reason, and ...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)