 | David Womersley - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 472 pages
...family ties? We begin our public affections in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...in society, is the first principle (the germ as it werel of public affections we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding... | |
 | Alan Finlayson - Philosophy - 2003 - 696 pages
...No. 55. 12. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1973): To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind. (59) 13. Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, trans. Stuart Gilbert (New... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 326 pages
...allegiance, and is given eloquent expression in one of the most famous passages in the Reflections: To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind. (Reflections, 135) But, as is clear from this formulation, it by no means follows that our allegiances... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...parallels Edmund Burke's eloquent declaration in his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): 'To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...in the series by which we proceed towards a love to country and to mankind.'16 But the poem is also a 'conversation' in a different sense. By juxtaposing... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - Law - 2015 - 350 pages
...progression in arriving at the love of all mankind was also indirect, from love of kin to love of kind: To be attached to the sub-division, to love the little...link in the series by which we proceed towards a love of our country, and to mankind.43 He believed the germ of public affection began in the family. In... | |
 | Sankar Muthu - Philosophy - 2009 - 368 pages
...[1757] Kant admired greatly). Burke wrote famously in Refleetions on the Revolution in France that [t]o be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. . . .'' Kant was aware of the problems facing those who... | |
 | Bernard J. Lee, Michael A. Cowan - Religion - 2003 - 220 pages
...Catholic population (Lee, 2000, 62-63). We think that Edmund Burke's military metaphor is operative here: "To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...of public affections. It is the first link in the services by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind" (cited in Pelikan, 1992,... | |
 | Brian Galligan, Winsome Roberts - Political Science - 2004 - 289 pages
...Burke, expressed this in terms of the national significance of 'the little platoons'. In his words: To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind.1 Political life is territorial. Our parliamentary system of government is based on local election... | |
 | W. Wesley McDonald - Political Science - 2004 - 260 pages
...cannot by themselves reduce the self-absorption or belligerence of human beings. 6 COMMUNITY AND FREEDOM To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country, and to mankind. — Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France... | |
 | Stephen Rumph - Music - 2004 - 307 pages
...pole from Kant's moral law. He upheld instead the traditional, corporatist bonds of feudal society: To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little...is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. Burke's emphasis on love as the binding force in this... | |
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Turbulent, discontented men of quality, "in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order. One of the first symptoms they discover of a selfish and mischievous ambition, is a profligate disregard... 
