 ... 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, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue...  The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes - Página 101por Edmund Burke - 1839Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 536 páginas
...will be caft into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a fwinifh multitude. If, as I fufpect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antienc manners, fo do other interefts which we value full as much as they are worth. Even commerce,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 370 páginas
...will be caft into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a fwinifh multitude. If, as I fufpect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antienc manners, fo do other interefts which we value full as much as they are worth. Even commerce,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 páginas
...satisfied to continue the instructor, nnd not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural protector.. and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire,...always willing to own to ancient manners, so do other interest; which we value full as much as they are worth. Even commerce, and trade, and manufacture,... | |
 | 1811 - 334 páginas
...place ! 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...letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antient manners, so do other interests, which we value full as much as they are worth. Even commerce,... | |
 | 1811 - 338 páginas
...place! 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...letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antient manners, so do other interests, which we value full as much as they are worth. Even commerce,... | |
 | 1811 - 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,... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 páginas
...place ! 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...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 páginas
...place! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its...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 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,... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 páginas
...minds. Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ' Along with its...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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