 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 446 pages
...arbitraire qui ait jamais paru sous « le ciel3. » 1. Learning with its natural protectors and guardians will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. 2. I am satisfied beyond a doubt that the project of turning a great empire into a vestry or into a... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1867 - 460 pages
...subsequent phrase, where Burke expresses his alarm that " along with its natural guardians and protectors learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." It is plain from the context that Burke desired to speak only of such rabble as had dragged their prisoners... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1869 - 572 pages
...by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Mong with its natural protectors and guardians, learning...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.* * See the fate of Bailly and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. Ibid. Vol. iii. /. 334. Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.1 Ibid. Vol. iii. /. 335. Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not so, from the particular nature of a House of Commons,...took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental fully as much as they are worth. Even commerce, and trade, and manufacture, the gods of our * Bee the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. Jbid. Vol. iii. /. 334. Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.1 Ibid. Vol. iii./. 335 Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 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. BURKE: Reflections on the Revolution in Frante, All the possible charities of life ought to be cultivated,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be master ! Along with its natural protectors and guardians,...mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.7 If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Reference - 1877 - 466 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. [a] If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antient manners,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any souL POPE, Tfu Wife of Bath, Her Protogue. Multitude. — Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish MULTITUDE. — ED. BURKE. — The MULTITUDE is always in the wrong. Earl of BOSCOMMON. Mumbo Jumbo — The grand... | |
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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... 
