 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 páginas
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude*. If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, so... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 páginas
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude*. If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, so... | |
 | 1811 - 338 páginas
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude ! " If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antient manners,... | |
 | 1811 - 334 páginas
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude ! " If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antient manners,... | |
 | 1811 - 444 páginas
...marry into an illiterate family, the breed has become extinct ; and we have lived to see " learning cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude *." Whoever is inclined to give a preference to the genius of the moderns over that of the antients,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 páginas
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and uot aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, so... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 páginas
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...mire, and trodden down under, the hoofs of a swinish jnultitudg*. If, as I suspect^ modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 páginas
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a pwinish multitude*. * Sec the fate of Bailly and Condorcct, supposed to be here particularly alluded... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 454 páginas
...marry into an illiterate family, the breed has become extinct ; and we have lived to see " learning cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude *." Whoever is inclined to give a preference to the genius of the moderns over that of the antients,... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 páginas
...and were, indeed, the result of both combined, the spirit of a gentleman and the spirit ofreligion. The nobility and the clergy, the one by patronage,...Bailly and Condorcet, both vehement worshippers of the Parisian rabble, and both destroyed by popular cruelty, within three years; — Bailly guillotined... | |
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Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priesthood; and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union and their proper place! Happy if learning,... 
