 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 стор.
...selfish and mischievous ambition is a prof ligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others. To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...principle ( the germ, as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind.... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1904 - 616 стор.
...depart from antiquity.' Old local institutions and bonds of union should be carefully preserved, for ' to be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affection.' Hereditary institutions in addition to their other merits have the great virtue of strengthening... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 472 стор.
...selfish and mischievous ambition, is a profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others. To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 стор.
...selfish and mischievous ambition, is a profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others. To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 468 стор.
...seems to have been complete. It was a saying of Burke, thoroughly illustrative of his character, that " to love the little platoon we belong to in society is the germ of all public affections." His description of his wife, in her youth, is probably one of the finest... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Armistead Churchill Gordon - 1911 - 510 стор.
...of local self-government, — a doctrine that Mr. Burke has accurately and strikingly described: — To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...— the germ, as it were, — of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.... | |
 | John MacCunn - 1911 - 220 стор.
...collective action in the State. Burke has put this in words which are trite because they are so true : " To "be attached to the sub-division, to love the "...is the " first principle, the germ, as it were, of the public " affections." It is a sentence that hits the mark. To love the little platoon and not merely... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Armistead Churchill Gordon - 1911 - 508 стор.
...local self-government,—a doctrine that Mr. Burke has accurately and strikingly described:— . j To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle,—the germ, as it were,—of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which... | |
 | Alice Stopford Green - 1912 - 246 стор.
...the greatest political thinker that modern Ireland has sent out : " To be attached," said Burke, " to the sub-division, to love the little platoon we...principle (the germ as it were) of public affections." Perhaps, we might also suggest to our objector, the lesser nationalities are even now, in these days... | |
 | Keith Feiling - 1913 - 180 стор.
...counterpoise to their industrial system, and, lo ! the seven devils of industrial unrest are the fruit.1 1 " To be attached to the sub-division, to love the little...the first principle (the germ as it were) of public E. Do you think County Councils are a heaven-born method of government ? F. What I am driving at is... | |
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To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind. 
