 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,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 311834Full view - About this book
 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - English literature - 1904 - 160 pages
...ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with the natural protectors and guardians, learning will be...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 antient manners,... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...their minds. Happy if they had all eontinued to know their indissoluble union, and their proper place ! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far...shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, so... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...satisfied to nintinue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural proItrtors 'J/ If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient manners, so... | |
 | William Manning - Labor - 1922 - 100 pages
...always made out to destroy it soner or later, which I shall indeavour to prove by considering — 1 " Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1791). [18] 4thly The Meens by which the few Destroy... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...allow no force but argument. SIR WILUAM BROWNE — Epigram. In reply to Dr. Trapp. (See also TRAPP) 3 Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in France. 4 Out of too much learning become mad. BURTON —... | |
 | William Manning - Labor - 1922 - 100 pages
...always made out to destroy it soner or later, which I shall indeavour to prove by considering — 1 " Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of > swinish multitude." Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1791). 4thly The Meens by which... | |
 | John Holland Rose - Europe - 1924 - 1276 pages
..."Auckland Journals," ii, 481. Tomline, 111,458,459. Burke's unfortunate phrase in the "Reflections": "Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." * BM Place MSS., vol. entitled "Libel, Sedition, Treason, Persecution." weeks. They also presented... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...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 own to ancient... | |
 | London Corresponding Society - History - 1983 - 520 pages
...Smithfield; Bonfield, Bath Buildings, Hard Walk, Hoxton (22 May 1794, TS 11/956/3501). 56 Burke's fear that 'learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude' (Reflections on the Revolution in France, Penguin edn, p. 173), was popularly taken to mean that he... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - Fiction - 1984 - 280 pages
...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.10 If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antient... | |
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