 | American Library Association - 1928 - 60 páginas
...or lesser degree in the varying conceptions of the gentleman. "Nothing is more certain," says Burke, "than that our manners, our civilization and all the...for ages upon two principles ; and were indeed the result of both combined; I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion." Naturalism... | |
 | Dante Germino - 1979 - 416 páginas
...certain, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things . . . connected [thereto] . . . have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles; and were indeed the result of both combined: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion." The English... | |
 | Dante Germino - 1979 - 416 páginas
...Revolution was that to him it constituted a direct threat to the basic principles of civilization itself: Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things . . . connected [thereto] . . . have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles;... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 páginas
...mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. . . . Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our...for ages upon two principles; and were indeed the result of both combined; I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion. The nobility... | |
 | John Greville Agard Pocock - 1985 - 336 páginas
...more rational. And Burke continues: Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilisarion, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilisarion, have in this European world of ours depended for ages upon two principles, and were indeed... | |
 | Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - 1987 - 480 páginas
...find them, without sufficiently adverting to the causes by which they have been produced, and possibly may be upheld. Nothing is more certain, than that...for ages upon two principles; and were indeed the result of both combined; I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion. The nobility... | |
 | Michael Bentley - 2002 - 376 páginas
...far wider role, which was to fashion European civilisation. 'Nothing is more certain', wrote Burke, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the...for ages upon two principles; and were indeed the result of both combined; I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.1' By this Burke... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 páginas
...the civilization and manners of modern Europe as a whole were the children of Church and hierarchy: Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our...connected with manners, and with civilization, have ... depended for ages upon two principles; and were indeed the result of both combined; I mean the... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 páginas
...promulgated Marx's historical materialism really believe it. 65. Burke, Reflections, p. 182. Likewise, "nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things" connected with them have depended on "the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion" (p. 173).... | |
 | Milton Hindus - 180 páginas
...Italy, and Japan, than the writing of Edmund Burke, whose summary judgment he cites with approval: "Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things that are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended... | |
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Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have in this European world of ours depended for ages upon two principles, and were indeed the result of both... 
