 | Kate Stephens - 1927 - 178 páginas
...infinitely more polished; "There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-informed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely." We see the hauntingly "provincial" character of Mr. Norton's thought in what he wrote Ruskin about... | |
 | Kate Stephens - 1927 - 160 páginas
...limn subjects to which he constantly reverts. But Burke's are broader and infinitely more polished; "There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-informed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1927 - 252 páginas
...by corporations which are its creatures, or by individuals. LA FOLLETTE believed, with Burke, that " To make us love our country our country ought to be lovely," and he labored unceasingly to make it lovely, not for some, but for all of the people. He saw our territory... | |
 | 1878 - 1022 páginas
...England, most of us, to attach all this importance to social intercourse and manners. Yet Burke says : " There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would bo disposed to relish." And the power of social life and manners is truly, as we have seen, one of... | |
 | 1952 - 1054 páginas
...filled with strife, then do patriots flourish." Edmund Burke made a wise observation on this subject: "To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely." Surely real patriotism is the love of the ideal upon which our country is founded, a love that urges... | |
 | Michael Walzer - 2008 - 366 páginas
...Membership (like kinship) is a special relation. It's not enough to say, as Edmund Burke did, that "to make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely." 2 The crucial thing is that it be lovely for us—though we always hope that it will be lovely for... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 páginas
...the construction of poems, is equally true as to states. Non satis est pulchra esse poemata, dulcici sunto.* There ought to be a system of manners in every...love our country, our country ought to be lovely. . . . Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 páginas
...irrigation in ways that cannot be recovered in crops for decades, or to make his property beautiful ("To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely" [p. 172]) are "natural" in two ways: they naturally arise in the heart of a parent, and they lead to... | |
 | Edmund Burke, J. G. A. Pocock - 1987 - 294 páginas
...man, as well as a great critic, for the construction of poems is equally true as to states: — Non satis est pulchra esse poemata, dulcia sunto.{'" There...to be a system of manners in every nation which a wellinformed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham, Nicholas Jardine - 1990 - 374 páginas
...impresarios, cunning magicians, dissolute gamblers. Burke sought a corrective aesthetics of the state: 'to make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely'. The conspirators could not hope to understand or to use simplistic mechanical philosophy to make models... | |
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These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law. The precept given by a wise man, as well as a great critic, for the construction of... 
