 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
 | John Clarke - 2001 - 796 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...converse; to be enabled to draw the court and attention of die wise and learned, wherever they are to be found; to be habituated in armies to command and to obey;... | |
 | Thomas A. Boylan, Tadhg Foley - 2003 - 384 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... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 pages
...censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated eternal reason."6 Insofar as the American people...capable or not, of establishing good government from the pursuit of honor and duty; to be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and circumspection,... | |
 | Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 pages
...estimation . . . [and] see nothing low and sordid from [his] infancy," must "stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the...combinations of men and affairs in a large society," and must "have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse." 4 At the same time, however, the authority... | |
 | John B. Morrall - 2004 - 162 pages
...censorial inspection of the publick eye, to look early to publick 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... | |
 | Michael Augspurger - 2004 - 310 pages
...wrote, must be able "to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse" and "to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the...combinations of men and affairs in a large society." Aristocrats not only had to be honest, ambitious, and talented but reflective and thoughtful as well.... | |
 | Peter Viereck - 200 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...wherever they are to be found; to be habituated in the pursuit of honor and duty . . . such are the elements that compose this unbought grace. . . . In... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1963 - 585 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...be found; to be habituated in armies to command and to obey; to be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honor and duty; to be formed to the greatest... | |
 | Edward Andrew - 2006 - 297 pages
...aristocrats who, as Burke put it in An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, 'stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the...the wise and learned, wherever they are to be found ...'78 Narrow scholars and closeted philosophers can usefully serve powerful men whose practical know-how... | |
 | Stephen L. Elkin - 2006 - 428 pages
...Federalist," 874-75. Consider here Burke's comment that comfortable Whig families "stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the...combinations of men and affairs in a large society." "An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs," in Burke, Works, 3:85-86. Consider also the comment of a... | |
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