...great Edmund Burke : " We know, and, what is better, we feel that, in the .great body of the people, 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...

...our moral and social condition. Enough that, in the words of Burke, ' we know, and what is better, feel inwardly that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and all comfort,' and with this conviction, and rejoicing in the knowledge that the Clergy of Birmingham...

...vitality of the national religion made him look askance upon the freethinkers. We Englishmen, he says, 'know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that...civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.'2 The statement justines an eloquent defence of the Established Church; and he seems almost...

...of that which one of her own distinguished countrymen of a former age so well described as forming ' the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.' To the scenes and circumstances of that part of Mr. Disraeli's parliamentary career we have now to...

...that, as to the mass of our people, the account given by Burke a hundred years ago still holds good : ' We know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that...source of all good, and of all comfort.' . . . We have our Free-thinkers, our Pantheists, our Positivists, our Agnostics, and doubtless the tendency...

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...declarations, and in imitation of His perfections. c. BVBXE — Reflections on the Revolution in France. ar. Act IV. Sc. 1. If batua of civil society, and the source of all good, and of all comfort J. BURKE — Reflections on...

...subject should be studied by all who decry all creeds and oppose the union between church and state — "we know, and what is better, we feel inwardly that...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...

...never 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...