 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...may be dated from that day, I mean a revolution in sentiments, manners, and moral opinions. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...dated from that day, I mean a revolution in sentiments, manners, and moral opinions. * * * * Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 pages
...left on the mind of a thinking man, concerning their determined hostility to the human race. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothfr, corrupt or purify,... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...may be dated from that day, I mean a revolution in sentiments, manners, and moral opinions. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify,... | |
 | England - 1834 - 918 pages
...instruments of good and evil are true; but he too rapidly drops their history. " Manners," he observes, "are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe,... | |
 | 1821 - 506 pages
...most graceful composition in the whole picture." — Ed. Mag. " Manners are of more importance lhan laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify,... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...thus, when we might be happy and quiet, we create trouble to ourselves. — IZAAJC WALTON. MANNERS are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...left on the mind of a thinking man concerning their determined hostility to the human race. Manners my guide, (you know in part what I have lost, and would to God I could clear touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify,... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...instruments of good and evil are true ; but he too rapidly drops their history. " Manners," he observes, "are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe,... | |
 | Ralph Randolph Gurley - African Americans - 1835 - 566 pages
...high responsihilities, and not to be conducted without a serious amount of care and labour. * Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify,... | |
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws 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,... 
