 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...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 141841Full view - About this book
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...indifferent in their operation, we must presume that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civiliza1 "It does not suffice that poems should be beautiful; they must be charming." — HORACE.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...indifferent in their operation, we must presume that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civiliza1 "It does not suffice that poems should be beautiful; they must be charming." — HORACE.... | |
 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - English literature - 1904 - 160 pages
...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. "We are but too apt to consider things in the state...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... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles;... | |
 | 1919 - 926 pages
...more alluring to them than that of being. In the Reflections on Revolution in France Burke says : " We are but too apt to consider things in the state...they have been produced, and possibly may be upheld." But whatever other politicians did, Burke was never content unless he followed a question to its ethical... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...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;... | |
 | American Library Association - Books and reading - 1928 - 60 pages
...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 good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles... | |
 | Dante Germino - Political Science - 1979 - 416 pages
...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 - Fiction - 1984 - 280 pages
...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...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;... | |
 | Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - History - 1987 - 480 pages
...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...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;... | |
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