 For though hereditary wealth, and the rank which goes with it, are too much idolized by creeping sycophants, and the blind, abject admirers of power, they are too rashly slighted in shallow speculations of the petulant, assuming, shortsighted coxcombs...  Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical - Σελίδα 26των Edmond Burke - 1815Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 σελίδες
...amongst the best — they are, at the very worst, the ballast in the vessel of the commonwealth. . . . Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference...birth is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitic. . . . Society is indeed a contract . . . [but] as the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 σελίδες
...amongst the best,) they are, at the very worst, the ballast in the vessel of the commonwealth. For though hereditary wealth, and the rank which goes...birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitic. It is said that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True ; if the constitution... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 σελίδες
...amongst the best,) they are, at the very worst, the ballast in the vessel of the commonwealth. For though hereditary wealth, and the rank which goes...birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitic. It is said that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True ; if the constitution... | |
 | Cornelia D. J. Pearsall - 2008 - 408 σελίδες
...aristocracy were especially qualified to do the work of governing through the fact of inheritance: "Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference...given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitic."4 Tennyson's representation of social organizations, no less than his conception of beauty,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1955 - 384 σελίδες
...among the best, they are, at the very worst, the ballast in the vessel of the 4—2 commonwealth. For though hereditary wealth, and the rank which goes...given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impoliticly. It is said, that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True... | |
 | 1918 - 522 σελίδες
...mount; this is the stalk True power doth grow on ; and her rights are these." — Wordsworth. And: "For though hereditary wealth, and the rank which goes with it, are too much idolised by creeping sycophants, and the blind abject admirers of power, they are too rashly slighted... | |
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