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" There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. "
On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional ... - Page 232
by Charles Bucke - 1823
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Writings and Speeches, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 588 pages
...ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock in which manners and opinions perish ; and...
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A College Manual of Rhetoric

Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1902 - 476 pages
...he attacked would be restrained from insurrection by principle. — MACAULAY : History of England. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. — BURKE : Reflections on the Revolution in France. It was dangerous to trust the sincerity of Augustus...
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A College Manual of Rhetoric

Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1902 - 474 pages
...he attacked would be restrained from insurrection by principle. — MACAULAY : History of England. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. — BURKE : Reflections on the Revolution in France. It was dangerous to trust the sincerity of Augustus:...
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Edmund Burke, Apostle of Justice and Liberty

T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle. Criminal means, once tolerated,...
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Aliens Or Americans?

Howard Benjamin Grose - Aliens - 1909 - 382 pages
...Affected by Immigration. Hunter: Poverty, I, V, VI. Riis : How the Other Half Lives, XV, XVII, XXI. "To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely," said Burke. If there is to be patriotism, it \nust. be a matter of pride to say, "Americanus sum" —...
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Selections of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 458 pages
...ought to be a system of manners in every nation, which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock ^in which manners and opinions perish; and...
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English Prose (1137-1890)

John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 574 pages
...ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock in which manners and opinions perish; and...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 24

Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...ought to be a system of manners in every nation, which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock in which manners and opinions perish ; and...
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...ought to be a system of manners in every nation, which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. y, the hour is WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) FROM OLNEY HYMNS XXXV. LIUHT SHINING OUT or DARKNESS 1 GOD moves in a mysterious...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...ought to be a system of manners in every nation, which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock in which manners and opinions perish ; and...
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