 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 444 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | 1821 - 362 pagina’s
...indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satislied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be...into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a iwinish multitnde. If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to... | |
 | Gavin Young - 1822 - 412 pagina’s
...the master," what is the consequence ? " Along with its natural pro" tectors and guardians, knowledge will be cast into the " mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish " multitude." As to th& writer in Blackwood's Magazine, I leave hit fanaticism to the just censure of every admirer... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 520 pagina’s
...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...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.* If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, so... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pagina’s
...place ! Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructer, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.* If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, so... | |
 | 1834 - 1064 pagina’s
...culprits, too mean f hostility. She was not to fall extinguished in the countless levy of the empire, it was glad to shrink from the public eye, and expire...Bailly and Condorcet, both vehement worshippers of the Parisian rabble, and both destroyed by popular cruelty, within three years; — Bailly guillotined... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pagina’s
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! o some other measures and principles of loyalty, and to some other ideas of the constitution, * See the fate of Bailly and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pagina’s
...their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! vince of M SA * See the fate of Bailly and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 548 pagina’s
...place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructer, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.* If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, so... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...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...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to owe to ancient manners, so... | |
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Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priesthood; 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,... 
