 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...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 - English literature - 1803 - 458 pages
...circumftances of the trial, and execution of the former with this prediction. If If, as I fufpect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, fo do other interefts which we value full as much as they are worth. Even commerce, and trade, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...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,... | |
 | France - 1811 - 338 pages
...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 protectors...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 - 334 pages
...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 protectors...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 pages
...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 - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...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 protectors...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 - Great Britain - 1815 - 464 pages
...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...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...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...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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... 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... 
