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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,... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 31
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...950) Austrian-American economist. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, ch. 1 (1942). Masses, the 1 Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. EDMUND BURKE, (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1...
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Disciplining Hermeneutics: Interpretation in Christian Perspective

Roger Lundin - Religion - 1997 - 192 pages
...Hberte and egalite. Burke spoke of the "confused jargon of their Babylonian pulpits" and warned that "learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." What moral might my mediation of New Haven and Chicago have for the hermeneutic revolution coming out...
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John Keats and the Culture of Dissent

Nicholas Roe - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 344 pages
...contention in the Re/lections that in a democracy the nobility and clergy, those 'natural protectors' of 'learning', 'will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude'.52 Keats's letter implies the contrary: that, once liberated from an oppressive aristocratic...
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Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity

Ira Livingston - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 276 pages
...with the cattles feet," works intertextually to transvalue Burke's "leveling" scenario of "learning. . .cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude" (92), seeming to pathologize instead the sadistic masculinist and classist purity, binarity, and individualism...
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Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders

Don Herzog - History - 2000 - 580 pages
...satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master!" Then comes the infamous punchline: "Along with its natural protectors and guardians,...mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude."1 A swinish multitude: with dizzying speed, it emerges as one of the day's cant phrases,...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke (III) - History - 1999 - 356 pages
...indissoluble union, and their proper place! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisified to continue the instructor, and not aspired to 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 own to antient manners,...
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The Young Philosopher

Charlotte Smith - Fiction - 1798 - 448 pages
...supposed to be very stupid, hence a fool. 75. Smith echoes Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France: "Along with its natural protectors and guardians,...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude" (76). 76. The plebeians and the lowest multitude. Cicero, "Speech for Milo," line 95. 77. Romeo and...
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Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820

Emma Clery, Robert Miles - Fiction - 2000 - 322 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...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...
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Challenge of Keats: Bicentenary Essays, 1795-1995

Allan C. Christensen - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 340 pages
...the Revolution in France that in a democracy the nobility and clergy, Burke's "natural protectors" of "learning", "will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude".24 Keats's letter implies the contrary: that, once free of an oppressive aristocratic system,...
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Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union: Ireland in the 1790s

Jim Smyth - History - 2000 - 276 pages
...Although Edmund Burke's infamous prediction in Reflections on the Revolution in France that learning would be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of 'a swinish multitude' was not published until fifteen months after The Porciad, the common people of Ireland were frequently...
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