 ... depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in....  The historical class book: or, Readings in modern history - Page 461by John Davenport - 1839 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...operation, like that of the 188 air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them. * * * * Whilst manners remain entire, they will correct the vices of law, and soften it at length to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...operation, like that of the 188 air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them. -tjj&i/ ' * * * * A Whilst manners remain entire, they will correct the vices of law, and soften it... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 pages
...to our lives. According to their quality,they aid morals,they supply them, or they totally destory them. Of this the new French legislators were aware...manners, the most licentious, prostitute, and abandoned that ever has been known, and at the same time the most coarse, rude, savage, arid ferocious. Nothing... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...operation, like that of the 188 air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them. * * * * Whilst manners remain entire, they will correct the vices of law, and soften it at length to... | |
 | England - 1834 - 918 pages
...insensible operation, like that of the air we hreathe. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they...system of manners, the most licentious, prostitute, and ahandoned, that was ever known ; and at the same time, the most coarse, rude, savage, and ferocious.... | |
 | 1821 - 506 pages
...operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them." — Burke. Anecdote. of Bishop Andrews. Doct. Andrews, Bishop of Winchester, besides heing a man of... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...Insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they...manners, the most licentious, prostitute, and abandoned, that was ever known ; and at the same time, the most coarse, rude, savage, and ferocious. Nothing in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 618 pages
...operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give, their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they...manners, the most licentious, prostitute, and abandoned that ever has been known, and at the same time the most coarse, rude, savage, and ferocious. Nothing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...operation, like that ol the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. im some few like himself, legis" & diplomatiques r£unis, fiddle nu prineipe de touveraialff it " peuples quint lui permet pn*... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...17W, and see the subsequent proclamation. 296 297 lators were aware ; therefore, with the same meJiod, and under the same authority, they settled a system of manners, the most licentious, prostitute, ind abandoned, that ever has been known, and at the same time the most coarse, rude, savage, and ferocious.... | |
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