...about the latter, he opposes the warm and natural sentiments of human heings to revolutionary dummies, 'filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff...blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man'. The Rights of Man became the title of Paine' s famous reply to Burke, and where Burke saw the revolutionaries...

...guardians, the active monitors of our duty, the true supporters of all liberal and manly morals. We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled,...pedantry and infidelity. We have real hearts of flesh and blood beating in our bosoms. We fear God; we look up with awe to kings, with affection to Parliaments,...

...yet managed to disembowel the English. In contrast, Burke implies that the French have been "f1lled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and rags...paltry blurred shreds of paper about the rights of men" (8:137). Image upon image emphasizes the greater ambivalence Burke feels toward the expression...

...French. "We are not the converts of Rousseau; we are not the disciples of Voltaire. . . . We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled,...paltry, blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man."30 Instead, Burke argued, the British had a natural, and inalienable, affection and respect for...

...however, in associating writing not with the closing but with the opening of the body. We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled,...blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man." The closed body preserves, in Burke, "inbred sentiments," prejudices written in the blood. Men of "untaught...

...however, in associating writing not with the closing but with the opening of the body. We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled,...paltry blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man.31 The closed body preserves, in Burke, "inbred sentiments," prejudices written in the blood. Men...

...our inventions, for the great conservatories and magazines of our rights and privileges. [pp-47-So] ...We preserve the whole of our feelings still native...pedantry and infidelity. We have real hearts of flesh and blood beating in our bosoms. We fear God; we look up with awe to kings; with affection to parliaments;...

...writing not with the closing but with the opening of the body. We have not been drawn and trnssed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and rags and paltty blutred shreds of paper about the rights of man/1 The closed body preserves, in Burke, "inbred...

...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...

...guardians, the active monitors of our duty, the true supporters of all liberal and manly morals. We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled,...pedantry and infidelity. We have real hearts of flesh and blood beating in our bosoms. We fear God; we look up with awe to kings, with affection to Parliaments,...