 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1896 - 456 pagina’s
...American Renaissance — the development of the slumoering genius of our land. Burke has remarked : ' Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order...it is the Corinthian capital of polished society. ' Certainly, Southern planters possess all the elements of this highest order of social architecture,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1898 - 478 pagina’s
...preserve possession of what he has found to belong to him and to distinct a guish him, is one of the securities against injustice and despotism implanted...a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthhn capital of polished society. Omnes boni nobililati semper favemus, was the saying of a wise... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 pagina’s
...to preserve possession of what he has found to belong to him, and to distinguish him, is one of the securities against injustice and despotism implanted...Corinthian capital of polished society. " Omnes boni nolilitati semper favemus," was the saying of a wise and good man. It is, indeed, one sign of a liberal... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 pagina’s
...has not wisdom and justice for her companions, and does not lead prosperity and plenty in her train. Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order....It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. It is a sour, malignant, envious disposition, without taste for the reality, or for any image or representation... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pagina’s
...title. — Ford. If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. — Plata. s health, the lover's victory, and the beggar's wealth. — Crowley. The man who It is indeed one sign of a liberal and benevolent mind to incline to it with some sort of partial propensity.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pagina’s
...title. — Ford. If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. — Plato. g π 0 & μ g 1 | ... 럻 6 P ΧŁ It is indeed one sign of a liberal and benevolent mind to incline to it with some sort of partial propensity.... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 pagina’s
...to preserve possession of what he has found to belong to him, and to distinguish him is one of the securities against injustice and despotism implanted...of polished society. Omnes boni nobilitati semper favetnus, was the saying of a wise and good man. It is indeed one sign of a liberal and benevolent... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 472 pagina’s
...to preserve possession of what he has found to belong to him, and to distinguish him is one of the securities against injustice and despotism implanted...It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. Otnnes boni nobilitati semper favemus, was the saying of a wise and good man. It is indeed one sign... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1927 - 244 pagina’s
...his first ' steamcarriage' experiments on the public roads in 1827-8. zoo. The Corinthian capital. ' Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order....It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.' Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution. 1 asked a labouring peasant. At or near Winterslow, no... | |
 | Heinrich Heine - 1914 - 600 pagina’s
...pfus.« «•• Gemeint kann nur Eugen von Breza sein/ vgl. zu S. i44vK und 295,5 ff. S. 399 21 f. »Nobility is a graceful Ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capitol of polishecf societ)'« <Reflections on the Revolution in France. . . 1790). " Kapital ist... | |
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The strong struggle in every individual to preserve possession of what he has found to belong to him, and to distinguish him is one of the securities against injustice and despotism implanted in our nature. It operates as an instinct to secure property,... 
