| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...great body of the people. We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.* In England we arc so convinced of this, * Sit igitur hoc ab initio persuaium civibuc, dominos me omnium... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...amongst us. This disposition still remains, at least in the great body of the people. We know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.* In England we are so convinced of this,... | |
| England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...the great body of the people. "We know, and what is better, we feel, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. In England, we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition, with which the accumulated... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...us. This disposition still remains, at least in the great body of the people. , -. . We know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.* In England we are so convinced of this,... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1827 - 484 pages
...never set up any of their own, i. 8. Effects of it on the colonists of America, iii. 52. The basis of civil society, and the source of all good, and of all comfort, v. 1 73. Respected in England, 1 76. A strong sense of it necessary to those in power, 177. 188. Mischievous... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...keen, Night and day my blood it drinks—my heart doth me teen. CCCCLXXVII. Old Love Song. We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. In England we are so convinced of this,... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Night and day my blood it drinks— my heart doth me teen. Old Love Song. CCCCLXXVII. We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. In England we are so convinced of this,... | |
| sir Henry Halford (1st bart.) - 1834 - 72 pages
...be forgotten, in any system of education, that religion is the cementing and preserving principle of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. A pupil thus sent forth, accomplished in a virtuous discipline, fitted to procure him attention and... | |
| England - 1834 - 1056 pages
...the great body of the people. " VVe know, and what is better, we fee), dial religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. In England, we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition, with which the accumulated... | |
| Scotland - 1834 - 1064 pages
...that the eloquent description of Mr Burke is yet applicable to the English people. " We know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civilized society, and the source of all good, and of all comfort We are во convinced of this, that... | |
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