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" To be bred in a place of estimation; to see nothing low and sordid from one's infancy; to be taught to respect one's self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground... "
The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Página 217
por Edmund Burke - 1803
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The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-century British Literature ...

Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 páginas
...place of estimation . . . [and] see nothing low and sordid from [his] infancy," must "stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the widespread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society," and must...
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History of American Political Thought

Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 páginas
...to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society; to have...
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Irish Political Economy

Thomas A. Boylan, Tadhg Foley - 2003 - 384 páginas
...to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society; to have...
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Political Thinkers: From Aristotle to Marx

John B. Morrall - 2004 - 162 páginas
...to the censorial inspection of the publick eye, to look early to publick opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society; to have...
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An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression America

Michael Augspurger - 2004 - 310 páginas
...Burke wrote, must be able "to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse" and "to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the widespread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society." Aristocrats...
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Conservative Thinkers: From John Adams to Winston Churchill

Peter Viereck - 200 páginas
...to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the widespread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society; to have leisure...
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Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison

Stephen L. Elkin - 2006 - 428 páginas
...Federalist," 874-75. Consider here Burke's comment that comfortable Whig families "stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the widespread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society." "An Appeal...
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Patrons of Enlightenment

Edward Andrew - 2006 - 297 páginas
...propertied aristocrats who, as Burke put it in An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, 'stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the widespread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society; to have leisure...
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - 718 páginas
...to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society; to have...
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The Man On Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill

Molly Worthen - 2007 - 379 páginas
...Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), the proper aristocrat is obligated to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the widespread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society ... to despise...
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