 | Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1856 - 248 pages
...his Reflections on the French Revolution:— "We know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. We are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition, with which the accumulated absurdity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...remains, at least in the great body of the people. We know, and what is belter, we feel inwardly, that riental t Bind might have crusted it over in the course of ages, that ninty-nino in a hundred of the people of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source...it over in the course of ages, that ninety-nine in an hundred of the people of England would not prefer to impiety. We shall never be such fools as to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1864 - 588 pages
...remains ; at least in the great body of the people. We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.i In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition, with which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1865 - 604 pages
...in the great body 2_f the people. ...•,%% \ We know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source...we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust ofsupersjiiipn, with which the accumulated absurdity ot the human mind might have crusted it over in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1869 - 440 pages
...against it never set up any of their own, i. 7. effects of it on the colonists of America, ii. 122. the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort, iii. 350. the respect entertained for it in England, iii. 352. a strong sense of it necessary to those... | |
 | College students - 1886 - 598 pages
...diet. Thus Edmund Burke said many |y ears ago: "We know, and what« 44 better, feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all pood and of all comfort. ID England we are so convinced of this that there is no met of superstition... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Philosophy, English - 1876 - 498 pages
...askance upon the freethinkers. We Englishmen, he says, 'know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.' 2 The statement justifies an eloquent defence of the Established Church ; and he seems almost to think... | |
 | Thomas Robinson - Bible - 1876 - 362 pages
...wretched, a change from pain." — Olicer Goldsmith. " We know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort." — Edmund Burke, on the French Revolution. " With all my follies of youth, and, I fear, a few vices... | |
 | william francis ainsworth - 1876 - 750 pages
...know, and, what is better, we fee inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the soura of all good and of all comfort. In England we are so convinced " this, that there is no rust of superstition with which the accutuu, lated absurdity of the human... | |
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We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort*. 
