 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 468 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...mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.1 If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to owe to ancient... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 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...mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.1 If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to owe to ancient... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 472 pagina’s
...ambition, kad been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with ita natural protectors and guardians, learning will be...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. 1 If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to owe to ancient manners,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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... | |
 | Maude Morrison Frank - 1911 - 216 pagina’s
...ne'er unroll; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. 4 Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. 5 The ringing of bells is at an end; the rumbling of the carriages has ceased; the pattering of feet... | |
 | Maude Morrison Frank - 1911 - 216 pagina’s
...penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. 4 Learning will be east into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. 5 The ringing of bells is at an end; the rumbling of the carriages has ceased; the pattering of feet... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1912 - 646 pagina’s
...Auckland Journals," ii, 481. Tomline, iii, 458, 459. Burke's unfortunate phrase in the " Reflections " : " Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." weeks. They also presented an address which ended thus: "Other nations will soon follow your steps... | |
 | Hanford Lennox Gordon - 1913 - 460 pagina’s
...don't know nothin' yit but the feed-box an' how tu bray an' kick. He's a Dimecrat. — Bronco Bill. Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. — Edmund Burke. He serves and fears The fury of the many-headed monster, The giddy multitude. —... | |
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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,... 
