...importance than laws. The law teaches us but here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine...constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like the air we breathe. — BURKE. NEW YORK Copyright, 1901, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ¥70 /A ^S" BJ...

...in the widest sense, as personal and public, when he said : — '* Manner* are what rex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us by a constant, steady, uniform, inevitable operation, like that of the air we breathe in." Compare the. Lat. mores. DEMEANOUR (0. fi.dimener,...

...evidence of imposition.— Dignity is often a veil between ns and the real truth of things.— EP Whipple. on of its walls, in order to show the world how little they depended upon might but courage for s can touch vis here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt...

...of imposition. — Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.— EP Whipple. nd plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.— AB Alcotl. Men are taught virtue can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt...

...importance than law," he had declared, and the Whig culture-shapers agreed. "Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, and insensible operation, like the air we breathe in."101 Burke's respect for the social influence...

...of the mind first gave it birth, There's no such thing — as happiness on earth. EJ.LEN. MANNERS. Manners are of more importance than laws; upon them,...laws depend . The law touches us but here and there, now and hen. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine...

...all will be an insufferable interference with everybody's freedom of conscience. — MAHATMA GANDHI Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. —EDMUND BURKE A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education and social...

...order Like many of his contemporaries, Burke was well aware of the social control function involved: Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them,...great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex and soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase,...

...speech on India, it would also seem a good deal more arbitrary. What authority rests upon is manners: 'Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure the laws depend.'45 The point, once more, is Wittgensteinian: what will count as an effective law for us is...

...sentiment and heroic enterprize" to defend the "age of chivalry" from democratic revolutions.38 For 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...