 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,...  Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical - Σελίδα 178των Edmond Burke - 1815Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood - 1884 - 360 σελίδες
...sudden anger, caused sometimes by pure breaches of good manners, we almost agree with Burke that " manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend." Some one calls politeness " benevolence in trifles, the preference of others to ourselves in little,... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood - 1884 - 424 σελίδες
...always. Burke said that manners were mure important than laws. " Manners are what vex or soothe, comfort or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us by a constant, steady, uniform, insenjible operation, like the air we breathe." A salutation may have a great deal of meaning in it.... | |
 | lady Constance Eleanora C. Howard - 1885 - 464 σελίδες
...' Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.' 'Burke' tells us, — 'Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them,...laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, now and then ; manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 σελίδες
...charity.—Reflect. on Rev. in France. THE HABITS AND CUSTOMS OF A PEOPLE OF MORE IMPORTANCE THAN ITS LAWS. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them,...and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1888 - 316 σελίδες
...III. MANNERS. MANNERS are of more importance than laws. In a great measure, the laws depend on them. 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, steady, uniform,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 σελίδες
...Parkhurst : Sermons. II. Human Spirit and Divine Inspiration. 348 MANNERS — M ARIil AGE. MANNERS. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them,...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, steady, uniform,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 σελίδες
...Spirit and Divine Inspiration. MANNERS. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a groat 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, steady, uniform,... | |
 | James Henry Potts - 1889 - 806 σελίδες
...health. Burke says that manners are more important than laws. "Manners are what vex or soothe, comfort or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us,...constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like the air we breathe." Emerson gracefully declares that manners are the happy ways of doing things; each... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 σελίδες
...1780-1842. VIII. Manners. Manners are of more importance than laws. In a great measure laws depend on them. 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, steady, uniform,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1893 - 224 σελίδες
...can be 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,...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, steady, uniform,... | |
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