 To be bred in a place of estimation; to see nothing low and sordid from one's infancy; to be taught to respect one's self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3671856Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - 1928 - 262 pages
...censorial inspection of the public eye ; to look early to public opinion ; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the...found ; — to be habituated in armies to command and to obey ; to be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honour and duty ; to be formed to the greatest... | |
 | Frederick D. Wilhelmsen - 1956 - 236 pages
...to public opinion; to stand npon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of die wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations...converse: to be enabled to draw the court and attention af die wise and l<^»mM wherever they are to be found; to be habituated in the pursuit of honour and... | |
 | Robert Roswell Palmer - 1959 - 552 pages
...oneself; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye ... ; to tafe a large view . . . in a large society; to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse . . . ; to be habituated in armies to command and to obey; to be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honor... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1984 - 512 pages
...where they are habituated to self-respect; to the "censorial inspection of the public eye"; to taking a "large view of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified...combinations of men and affairs in a large society"; to having leisure to reflect; to meeting the wise and learned as well as rich traders; to military command;... | |
 | Detmar Doering - 1990 - 330 pages
...inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground äs to be enabled to take a large view of the wide-spread...affairs in a large society; to have leisure to read, reflect, to converse; to be enabled to draw the court and attention of the wise and learned...: these... | |
 | Michael Bentley - 2002 - 376 pages
...censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the...and learned wherever they are to be found; ... to be led to a guarded and regulated conduct, from a sense that you are considered as an instructor of your... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - 1993 - 512 pages
...inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground äs to be enabled to take a large view of the wide-spread...affairs in a large society; to have leisure to read, reflect, to converse; to be enabled to draw the court and attention of the wise and learned...: these... | |
 | James Conniff - 1994 - 384 pages
...to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion;... to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse;...draw the court and attention of the wise and learned, ... to be habituated in armies to command and to obey; to be taught to despise danger in the pursuit... | |
 | Gary Lee Harrison - 1994 - 250 pages
...perspective on the expansive and diverse social life below: "To stand upon such elevated grounds [is] to be enabled to take a large view of the wide-spread...combinations of men and affairs in a large society" (130). In Observations on the River Wye (1782), William Gilpin at first appears to offer an alternative... | |
 | Harvey C. Mansfield - 1998 - 388 pages
...of estimation" and "see nothing low and sordid from . . . infancy," they "stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the...diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society."46 Because they are elevated above the necessities of acquisition, they may be presumed capable... | |
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