 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,...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 374by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...corrupt or purify, exalt or debafe, barbarize or refine us, by a conftant, fteady, uniform, infenfible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They...their whole form and colour to our lives. According. totheir quality, they aid morals, they fupply them, or they totally deftroy them. Of this the new French... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 440 pages
...corrupt or purify, exalt or debafe, barbarize or refine us, by a conftant, . fteady, uniform, infenfible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They...to our lives. According to their quality,they aid morals, they fupply them, or they totally deftroy them. Qf this the new French legiflators were aware;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 442 pages
...corrupt or purify, ex-, alt or debafe, barbarize or refine us, by a conftant, fteady, uniform, infenfible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They...whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quaUty, they aid morals, they fupply them, or they totally deftroy them. Of this the new French legiflators... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 252 pages
...corrupt or purify, exalt or dtbafe, barbarize or refine us, by a conftant, fteady, uniform, infenfible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They...whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid moials, they fupply them, or they totally deiuoy them,—Bur Its. MILITIA. A WELL... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine...steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the 188 air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine...steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the 188 air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine...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... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine...steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the 188 air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality,... | |
 | England - 1834 - 922 pages
...harharize or refine us, by a constant, uniform, 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 supply them, or they totally destroy them. Of this the new French legislators... | |
 | 1821 - 504 pages
...laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine...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... | |
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