 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 Seiten
...they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. —EMERSON. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give... | |
 | William Drysdale - 1900 - 540 Seiten
...Swift. Unbecoming forwardness often proceeds more from ignorance than impudence. — Greville. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a...laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine... | |
 | A. B. Guilford, Aaron Lovell - 1901 - 184 Seiten
...seminary cylinder illegible courteous treacle infallible vesicle drollery intolerant ventricle Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches but here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase,... | |
 | A. B. Guilford, Aaron Lovell - 1901 - 192 Seiten
...receiver responsible righteous spectacle salubrious sobriety seminary treacle vesicle ventricle Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches but here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase,... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1904 - 800 Seiten
...of manners 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,... | |
 | 1906 - 346 Seiten
...explanation, " Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law can touch us here and there, now and then; manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in. They give,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 Seiten
...imposition. — Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.— EP Whipple. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 Seiten
...imposition.— Dignity is often a veil between ns and the real truth of things.— EP Whipple. Manners s 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... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - 1910 - 326 Seiten
...lives, and they judge us by what they see in that half -hour. In a fine passage Burke says : " Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a...laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine... | |
 | Edward David Jones - 1914 - 296 Seiten
...compensated for by the constancy of its operation for, as Burke said, "The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. ' ' As a... | |
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Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their... 
