 | Irving Babbitt - 1995 - 416 strani
...conflicted, but have more often been in alliance with one another. As Burke says in a well-known passage: 'Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things that are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended... | |
 | David Wootton - 1996 - 964 strani
...find them, without sufficiently adverting to the causes by which they have been produced and possibly may be upheld. Nothing is more certain than that our...for ages upon two principles and were, indeed, the result of both combined: I mean the spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion. The nobility... | |
 | Noel B. Reynolds, W. Cole Durham - 2003 - 320 strani
...above making an argument based on social utility when it suited his purposes. See, eg, Reflections, 69: Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our...connected with manners and with civilization have . . . depended for ages upon two principles and were, indeed, the result of both combined: I mean the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 strani
...find them, without sufficiently adverting to the causes by which they have been produced, and possibly may be upheld. Nothing is more certain than that our...for ages upon two principles, and were, indeed, the result of both combined: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion. The nobility... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 strani
...must exert an emotional hold if they are to be effective. which they have been produced, and possibly may be upheld. Nothing is more certain, than that...for ages upon two principles; and were indeed the result of both combined; I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion. The nobility... | |
 | Paul Keen - 1999 - 318 strani
...terms of intellectual industriousness. 'Nothing is more certain', Burke insisted in the Reflections, 'than that our manners, our civilization, and all...world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion'.3 Arguably, the question of the social... | |
 | Edmund Burke (III) - 1999 - 356 strani
...find them, without sufficiently adverting to the causes by which they have been produced, and possibly may be upheld. Nothing is more certain, than that...connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in the European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles; and were indeed the result of both... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - 322 strani
...find them, without sufficiently adverting to the causes by which they have been produced, and possibly may be upheld. Nothing is more certain, than that...for ages upon two principles; and were indeed the result of both combined; I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion. The nobility... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 2000 - 600 strani
...observers denied that these two moralities were antithetical. In 1790, Burke dramatically asserted: 'Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our...for ages upon two principles: and were indeed the result of both combined; I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.' 301 The two... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips - 2000 - 390 strani
...where he names what he fears most to lose. "Nothing is more certain," he writes in a famous passage, "than that our manners, our civilization, and all...for ages upon two principles; and were indeed the result of both combined; I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion." 5 Enlarged... | |
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Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have in this European world of ours depended for ages upon two principles, and were indeed the result of both... 
