 Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles ; and were indeed the result...  The Massachusetts Teacher - Page 3671848Full view - About this book
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are ^ ր 0 O Հ 0 j < ʑ ^ b ... [ ŧ邀 ֆ ] j "X 19 The nobility and the clergy, the one by profession, the other by patronage, kept learning in existence,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have,...spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion. The nobility and the clergy, the one by profession, the other by patronage, kept learning in existence,... | |
 | American Library Association - Books and reading - 1928 - 60 pages
...more certain," says Burke, "than that our manners, our civilization and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have,...spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion." Naturalism does not become a major factor until the sixteenth century and does not threaten to overthrow... | |
 | Dante Germino - Political Science - 1979 - 416 pages
...certain, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things . . . connected [thereto] . . . have, in this European world of ours, depended for...spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion." The English national society, then, participated in a common civilizational ethos, or cultural whole,... | |
 | Dante Germino - Political Science - 1979 - 416 pages
...certain, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things . . . connected [thereto] . . . have, in this European world of ours, depended for...mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.20 The English national society, then, participated in a common civilizational ethos, or cultural... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - Fiction - 1984 - 280 pages
...Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have,...spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion. The nobility and the clergy, the one by profession, the other by patronage, kept learn ing in existence,... | |
 | John Greville Agard Pocock - History - 1985 - 336 pages
...manners and with civilisarion, have in this European world of ours depended for ages upon two ptinciples, and were indeed the result of both combined; I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spitit of religion. The nobility and the clergy, the one by profession, the other by parronage, kept... | |
 | Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - History - 1987 - 480 pages
...Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have...spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion. The nobility and the clergy, the one by profession, the other by patronage, kept learning in existence,... | |
 | Michael Bentley - History - 2002 - 376 pages
...more certain', wrote Burke, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have,...mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.1' By this Burke understood not merely that the clergy and nobility had protected learning,... | |
 | Milton Hindus - Criticism - 180 pages
..."Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things that are connected with manners and with civilization, have,...spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion." It was only appropriate and just, therefore, that Babbitt's compliments be returned eventually to himself... | |
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