He moulded that fierce nation by degrees to soft and social customs, leading them imperceptibly into a fondness for baths, for gardens, for grand houses, and all the commodious elegancies of a cultivated life.
Burke illustrates Agricola's gradual transformation of the Britons' lifestyle, promoting civilization through cultural refinement.
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Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.
To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.
The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.
It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.
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