...was nurtured by two institutions, the nobility and the church.8 As Burke put it in the Reflections: "Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles;...

...what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. (Edmund Bertram in Austen, Mansfield Park 84) Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles;...

...reinforce the value of the new coin, Edmund Burke in 1790 drew out its meaning with the statement, "Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization."67 Across the channel, first the marquis de Mirabeau, father of the...

...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles,...

...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles,...

...be indifferent in their operation, we must presume that on the whole their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have in this European world of ours depended for ages upon two principles,...

...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles;...

...continuity. Hence Burke says, in what from our present point of view is a key statement of his thought: Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles;...