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| Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...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...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have ... depended for ages upon two principles; and were indeed the... | |
| Peter Minowitz - Business & Economics - 1993 - 376 pages
...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).... | |
| Michael Bentley - History - 2002 - 376 pages
...far wider role, which was to fashion European civilisation. 'Nothing is more certain', wrote 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;... | |
| Milton Hindus - Criticism - 180 pages
...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... | |
| Irving Babbitt - History - 1995 - 416 pages
...conflicted, but have more often been in alliance with one another. As Burke says in a well-known passage: '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... | |
| David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...be indifferent in their operation, we must presume that on the whole their operation was beneficial. ere be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another; yet manners and with civilization have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles... | |
| Noel B. Reynolds, W. Cole Durham - Religion - 2003 - 320 pages
...above making an argument based on social utility when it suited his purposes. See, eg, Reflections, 69: Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization have . . . depended for ages upon two principles and were, indeed, the... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 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,... | |
| Jerry Z. Muller - History - 1997 - 476 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...which we find them, without sufficiently adverting [paying attention] to the causes by M Burke suggests that rationalism can undermine existing institutions... | |
| Paul Keen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 318 pages
...terms of intellectual industriousness. 'Nothing is more certain', Burke insisted in the Reflections, '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... | |
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