 Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant,...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 380by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, ior acceptable. It smoothes distinction, sweetens...It produces good nature and mutual ڇ 0 - morale, they supply them, or they" totally destroy them. — Burke. A well bred man is always sociable... | |
 | 1909 - 806 pages
...importance than laws, upon them in a great measure laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt...lives. According to their quality, they aid morals or they totally destroy them." And to this we may add that manners become, so to speak, the very soul... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - 1910 - 326 pages
...uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid...morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them." And yet manners are not, in England at least, appreciated as much as they ought to be. John Bull is... | |
 | 1915 - 436 pages
...to discover just where you are and why and for how long? — From Life. THE IMPORTANCE OF MANNERS. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them,...morals; they supply them or they totally destroy them. — Edmund Burke. "Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holy." This is a divine injunction. Wonder if... | |
 | Harry L. Eells, Hugh C. Moeller, Carl C. Swain - 1924 - 448 pages
...Manners. — "Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. According to their quality they aid morals; they supply them or they totally destroy them." The teacher cannot too strongly feel her responsibility in training her pupils in good manners. In... | |
 | John Greville Agard Pocock - 1985 - 336 pages
...reference to a system of civilized manners. 'Manners', he wrote, 'are of more importance than laws. . . . According to their quality, they aid morals, they...destroy them. Of this the new French legislators were aware',57 and had set out to inculcate a new system of manners altogether contrary to nature. The Revolution... | |
 | 272 pages
...uniform, insensible operation, ike that of the air we breathe ; they give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid...morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them. — Burke. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes... | |
 | Victoria de Grazia, Ellen Furlough - 1996 - 448 pages
...Burke, "manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure the laws depend. . . . According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them."39 Or, as the antiradical John Bowles none too subtly put it, preventing "luxury and dissipation"... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 pages
...future prognostication: they »-. about us, they are upon us. Letter to a Noble Lord (1796) 1904:187. 14 Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them,...morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them. Three Letters to a Member of Parliament ( 1 796- 1 797) 1904:310. Kenneth Burke 1897US philosopher... | |
 | Don E. Eberly, Ryan Streeter - 2002 - 166 pages
...pointing out that morals, to some extent, depend upon the maintenance of manners. Manners, he said, "give their whole form and color to our lives." "According to their quality," he said, "they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them." Mark Caldwell, in his book... | |
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