 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
 | Daniel I. O'Neill - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 306 pages
...was nurtured by two institutions, the nobility and the church.8 As Burke put it in the Reflections: "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;... | |
 | Michael Kramp - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 218 pages
...what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. (Edmund Bertram in Austen, Mansfield Park 84) 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;... | |
 | John M. Headley - History - 2008 - 316 pages
...reinforce the value of the new coin, Edmund Burke in 1790 drew out its meaning with the statement, "Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization."67 Across the channel, first the marquis de Mirabeau, father of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 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,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 462 pages
...be 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1955 - 384 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;... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Collections - 2005 - 465 pages
...continuity. Hence Burke says, in what from our present point of view is a key statement of his thought: 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;... | |
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