 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
 | 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... | |
 | Molly Worthen - 2007 - 379 pages
...from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), the proper aristocrat is obligated 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 ... to despise danger in the pursuit of honor and duty; to be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 510 pages
...early to public opinion ; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large "new of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations...found ; to be habituated in armies to command and to obey; to be taught to dedanger in the pursuit of honor and duty ; to be formed to the greatest degree... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 510 pages
...early to public opinion ; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large "new of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations...found ; to be habituated in armies to command and to obey; to be taught to dedanger in the pursuit of honor and duty ; to be formed to the greatest degree... | |
 | Thomas Chaimowicz - 2011 - 151 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...to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse. . .These are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without... | |
 | Henry Holt - 1914 - 480 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 honor and duty; to be formed to the greatest... | |
 | 1908 - 324 pages
...inspection of the public eye ; to look early to public opinion ; to stand upon an elevated ground so as to be enabled to take a large view of the widespread...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... | |
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