 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - Страниц: 444
...marry into an illiterate family, the breed has become extinct ; and we have lived to see " learning cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude *." Whoever is inclined to give a preference to the genius of the moderns over that of the antients,... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 362
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satislied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors...into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a iwinish multitnde. If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to... | |
 | Gavin Young - 1822 - Страниц: 412
...the master," what is the consequence ? " Along with its natural pro" tectors and guardians, knowledge will be cast into the " mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish " multitude." As to th& writer in Blackwood's Magazine, I leave hit fanaticism to the just censure of every admirer... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - Страниц: 648
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not * See the fate of Bailly and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances... | |
 | 1834 - Страниц: 1064
...Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." In this passage the powerful sagacity of the writer had actually predicted the fates of the literary... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - Страниц: 652
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not n the ,A * See the fate of Bailly and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - Страниц: 300
...Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." In this passage the powerful sagacity of the writer had actually predicted the fates of the literary... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - Страниц: 612
...Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." In this passage the powerful sagacity of the writer had actually predicted the fates of the literary... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - Страниц: 490
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural...modern letters owe more than they are always willing to owe to ancient manners, so do other interests which we value full as much as they are worth. Even commerce,... | |
 | Thomas Wright, Robert Harding Evans - 1851 - Страниц: 524
...debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master 1 Along with its natural protectors and guardians, LEARNING...trodden down under the hoofs of a SWINISH MULTITUDE."* * In Burke's own copy of his Works, his Son had inserted the following note in manuscript : " See the... | |
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... 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, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the... 
