...find Canning's neo-Whiggish Tory rhetoric unworthy of Burke, who invented it. Yet even Burke—"We preserve the whole of our feelings still native and entire, unsophisticated by pedantry and infidelity"—had necessarily to defend an inarticulate, because unwritten, constitution by at times...

...birds in a museum, with chaff and rags, and paltry, blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man. We preserve the whole of our feelings still native...affection to Parliaments, with duty to magistrates, with reverence to priests, and with respect to nobility. Why? Because, when such ideas are brought...

...guardians, the active monitors of our duty, the true supporters of all liberal and manly morals. . . . We preserve the whole of our feelings still native...affection to parliaments; with duty to magistrates; with reverence to priests; and with respect to nobility. Why? Because when such ideas are brought before...

...trussed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and rags . . . We preserve the whole of our feelings still native...of flesh and blood beating in our bosoms . . . We are generally men of untaught feelings." Again, in the language of patriotism we find the relish for...

...have not (as I conceive) lost the generosity and dignity of thinking of the fourteenth century.. .. We preserve the whole of our feelings still native...real hearts of flesh and blood beating in our bosoms" (137). Burke wanted England to recapture the sensitivity that he associated with a chivalric system...

...October Days the death of chivalry. In Britain, "we still bear the stamp of our forefathers," he wrote. "We fear God; we look up with awe to kings; with affection to parliaments; with duty to magistrates; with reverence to priests; and with respect to nobility." By the time most Americans read Burke's Reflections,...

...excellent discussion of Edgeworth's utilitarian regulation of desire (as motive to work) in the novel. 46 "We fear God; we look up with awe to kings; with affection to parliaments.... Why? Because when such ideas are brought before our minds, it is natural to be affected"; see Edmund...

...perpetual variety. 10 'clad in flesh and blood'] from Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France: 'We have real hearts of flesh and blood beating in our bosoms' (Mitchell 137). 11 the ghosts of Homer's heroes] a reference to Odyssey, Book XL 12 Play round the...

...birds in a museum, with chaff and rags, and paltry, blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man. We preserve the whole of our feelings still native...affection to Parliaments, with duty to magistrates, with reverence to priests, and with respect to nobility.* Why ? Because, when * The English are, I...

...birds in a museum, with chaff and rags, and paltry, blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man. We preserve the whole of our feelings still native...affection to Parliaments, with duty to magistrates, with reverence to priests, and with respect to nobility.* Why ? Because, when * The English are, I...