 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - 728 pages
...science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons...largely into the world ; but plunged into business ; 1 mean into the business of office ; and the limited and fixed methods and forms established there.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 454 pages
...than all the other kinds of learning put together." The same author, however, adds, " that they are not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the niind, exactly in the same proportion." Nor is tbis surprising; for the ultimate standards of right... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...however, adds, " that they are not apt, except in persons very happily 1 Mttalog. lib. ii. cap. 10. born, to open and to liberalize the mind, exactly in the same proportion." Nor is this surprising; for the ultimate standards of right and wrong, to which they recognise the... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.' Speech oa American Taxation. Again : in speaking... | |
 | 1857 - 678 pages
...science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and liberalize the miad eiactly in the same proportion." Why is the poet's function the noblest ? Because... | |
 | 1859 - 370 pages
...science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons...largely into the world ; but plunged into business ; J mean into the business of office ; and the limited and fixed methods and forms established there.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...learning put together ; hut it is not apt, except in persons very happily horn, to open and to liheralise the mind exactly in the same proportion. Passing from...that study he did not go very largely into the world; hut plunged into husiness ; I mean into the husiness of office ; and the limited and fixed methods... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1860 - 430 pages
...the assertion of Burke, who while he acknowledges that legal science strengthens the mind, says, " but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion." Or rather, will I say may you prove that you are... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 620 pages
...science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons...liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion." An agreeable chapter could be written regarding Burke's female acquaintances, their virtues, their... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1862 - 544 pages
...science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind in exactly the same proportion. Passing from .that study, he did not go very largely... | |
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He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons... 
