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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ... - Página 80
por Edmund Burke - 1814 - 246 páginas
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The Projector: A Collection of Essays, in the Manner of the ..., Volumen1

Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 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,...
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The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections

1821 - 362 páginas
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satislied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors...into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a iwinish multitnde. If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to...
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An Inquiry Into the Expediency of Applying the Principles of Colonial Policy ...

Gavin Young - 1822 - 412 páginas
...the master," what is the consequence ? " Along with its natural pro" tectors and guardians, knowledge will be cast into the " mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish " multitude." As to th& writer in Blackwood's Magazine, I leave hit fanaticism to the just censure of every admirer...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 páginas
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not * See the fate of Bailly and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen35

1834 - 1064 páginas
...Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." In this passage the powerful sagacity of the writer had actually predicted the fates of the literary...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volumen1

Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 páginas
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not n the ,A * See the fate of Bailly and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances...
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A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund ..., Volumen2

George Croly - 1840 - 300 páginas
...Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." In this passage the powerful sagacity of the writer had actually predicted the fates of the literary...
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A memoir of the political life of ... Edmund Burke

George Croly - 1840 - 612 páginas
...Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." In this passage the powerful sagacity of the writer had actually predicted the fates of the literary...
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The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a ...

Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 páginas
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural...modern letters owe more than they are always willing to owe to ancient manners, so do other interests which we value full as much as they are worth. Even commerce,...
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Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray ...

Thomas Wright, Robert Harding Evans - 1851 - 524 páginas
...debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master 1 Along with its natural protectors and guardians, LEARNING...trodden down under the hoofs of a SWINISH MULTITUDE."* * In Burke's own copy of his Works, his Son had inserted the following note in manuscript : " See the...
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