Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priesthood; and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union and their proper place! Happy if learning,... Blackwood's Magazine - Seite 311834Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 Seiten
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude*. If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, so... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 Seiten
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude*. If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, so... | |
| 1811 - 334 Seiten
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude ! " If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antient manners,... | |
| 1811 - 338 Seiten
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude ! " If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antient manners,... | |
| 1811 - 444 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 Seiten
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and uot aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, so... | |
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 Seiten
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...mire, and trodden down under, the hoofs of a swinish jnultitudg*. If, as I suspect^ modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 Seiten
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had...into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a pwinish multitude*. * Sec the fate of Bailly and Condorcct, supposed to be here particularly alluded... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 454 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 444 Seiten
...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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