 ... and 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 Works of Edmund Burke - 第 101 頁Edmund Burke 著 - 1839完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 444 頁
...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 - 362 頁
...place ! 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...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 - 412 頁
...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... | |
 | 1834 - 1064 頁
...minds. Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its...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 - 652 頁
...place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, und * See the fate of Bailly and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 頁
...minds. Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its...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 - 612 頁
...minds. Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its...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 - 490 頁
...place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its...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 - 524 頁
...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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 頁
...place ! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, multitude.6 If. as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they arc always willing to own to ancient... | |
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