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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ... - Page 80
by Edmund Burke - 1814 - 246 pages
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High School Exercises in Grammar

Maude Morrison Frank - 1911 - 216 pages
...penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. 4 Learning will be east into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. 5 The ringing of bells is at an end; the rumbling of the carriages has ceased; the pattering of feet...
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William Pitt and the Great War

John Holland Rose - 1912 - 646 pages
...Auckland Journals," ii, 481. Tomline, iii, 458, 459. Burke's unfortunate phrase in the " Reflections " : " Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." weeks. They also presented an address which ended thus: "Other nations will soon follow your steps...
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Laconics

Hanford Lennox Gordon - 1913 - 460 pages
...don't know nothin' yit but the feed-box an' how tu bray an' kick. He's a Dimecrat. — Bronco Bill. Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. — Edmund Burke. He serves and fears The fury of the many-headed monster, The giddy multitude. —...
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A Study in the Thought of Addison, Johnson and Burke

Lilian Beeson Brownfield - 1904 - 160 pages
...ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with the natural protectors and guardians, learning will be...letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antient manners, so do other interests which we value full as much as they are worth. Even commerce,...
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The Key of Libberty: Shewing the Causes why a Free Government Has Always ...

William Manning - 1922 - 100 pages
...always made out to destroy it soner or later, which I shall indeavour to prove by considering — 1 " Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1791). [18] 4thly The Meens by which the few Destroy...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...allow no force but argument. SIR WILUAM BROWNE — Epigram. In reply to Dr. Trapp. (See also TRAPP) 3 Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in France. 4 Out of too much learning become mad. BURTON —...
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The Key of Libberty: Shewing the Causes why a Free Government Has Always ...

William Manning - 1922 - 100 pages
...always made out to destroy it soner or later, which I shall indeavour to prove by considering — 1 " Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of > swinish multitude." Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1791). 4thly The Meens by which...
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Life of William Pitt

John Holland Rose - 1924 - 1276 pages
..."Auckland Journals," ii, 481. Tomline, 111,458,459. Burke's unfortunate phrase in the "Reflections": "Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." * BM Place MSS., vol. entitled "Libel, Sedition, Treason, Persecution." weeks. They also presented...
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Selections

Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master ! Along with its natural...mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.1 If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to ancient...
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On Taste: On the Sublime and Beautiful ; Reflections on the French ...

Edmund Burke - 1909 - 538 pages
...debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master I Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning...mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.1 If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to owe to ancient...
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