 | Edmund Burke - Reference - 1877 - 466 pages
...discover of a selfish and mischievous ambition, is a profligate disregard of a dignity which they u partake with others. To be attached to the subdivision,...towards a love to our country and to mankind. The interests of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1881 - 470 pages
...destruction of the nobility^jvouldLina. evitably become subservient to the worst designs_gf_indiIn the spoil and humiliation of their own order these...towards a love to our country and to mankind. The interests of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1883 - 396 pages
...Pope, Ess. on Man, iv. 396. Ib. Commonwealths are made of families, &c. Cp. Refl. on Fr. Rev. p. 68 : ' To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...principle (the germ as it were) of public affections,' &c. Cp. Churchill, Farewell : ' Those ties of private nature, small extent, In which the mind of narrow... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1881 - 462 pages
...selfish and mischievous ambition, is a profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with othersC To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...towards a love to our country and to mankind. The interests of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1886 - 494 pages
...preponderating weight being added to the force of the body of chicane in the Tiers Etat, compleated that momentum of ignorance, rashness, presumption,...towards a love to our country and to mankind. ' The interests of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it;... | |
 | William Edward H. Lecky - Great Britain - 1887 - 634 pages
...depart from antiquity.' Old local institutions and bonds of union should be carefully preserved, for ' to be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affection.' Hereditary institutions in addition to their other merits have the great virtue of strengthening... | |
 | Theodore Appel, D.D. - 1889 - 794 pages
...attached to the sub-division, to love the little platoon to which we belong in society,'said Edmund Burke, -is the first principle, the germ as it were of public...is the first link in the series by which we proceed to a love of our country and mankind.' " The social principle, which binds men together in large as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 pages
...dignity which they partake with others, j To be attached to the subdivision, to love the TrKte~ptatorwi we belong to in society, is the first principle (the...it were) of public affections. It is the first link 20 in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind. The interests of... | |
 | John MacCunn - Citizenship - 1894 - 244 pages
...that cause ; as some perhaps 1 Cf. Burke, Works, Vol. II., p. 320, " Reflections on the Revolution." "To be attached to the subdivision, to love the «...principle (the germ, as it were) of public affections." now are ready enough to give them for the cause of savage races. And is it not a fact of ordinary observation... | |
 | John Franklin Crowell - Education - 1898 - 384 pages
...are made organic parts of the social system. Burke says, with even more than his usual perspicuity, "To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...the first principle, the germ, as it were, of public affection."* The process of typal variation may be represented as a differentiating development from... | |
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Turbulent, discontented men of quality, "in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order. One of the first symptoms they discover of a selfish and mischievous ambition, is a profligate disregard... 
