Estates Quotes
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Enough of good there is in the lowest estate to sweeten life; enough of evil in the highest to check presumption; enough there is of both in all estates, to bind us in compassionate brotherhood, to teach us impressively that we are of one dying and one immortal family.
henry giles— P. 41. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Thereneed, at all events, be none ofthis,if peoplewould but live upon their own estates, and kill their own mutton.
Maria Edgeworth— 1812 Sir Terence O'Fay. The Absentee, ch.5.
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. . . With an equality of civil rights, all men are equal before the law; all classes of the community being liable equally to taxation, military service, jury duties, and to the other impositions attendant on civilization, and no one being exempted from its control, except on general rules, which are dependent on the good of all, instead of the exemption's belonging to the immunities of individuals, estates, or families. An equality of civil rights may be briefly defined to be an absence of privileges.
james fenimore cooper— On Equality
There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.
robert heilbroner— Chapter I, Part 6, The Inevitability of Progress, p. 31
From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.
Charles Lamb— “The superannuated man”
Enough of good there is in the lowest estate to sweeten life ; enough of evil in the highest to check presumption; enough there is of both in all estates, to bind us in compassionate brotherhood, to teach us impressively that we are of one dying and one immortal family.
— Henry Giles, p. 41. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The law is so benignant in this country that it sometimes contradicts itself in order to preserve estates.
— Lord St. Leonards, Brownlow v. Egerton (1854), 23 L. J. Rep. Part 5 (N. S.), Ch. 407.
Their Lordships of the Upper House...are one member of the Parliament; and also that the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of this House representing the whole Commons of this Realm are also another member of the same Parliament; and her Majesty the Head; and that of these three estates doth consist the whole body of Parliament able to make laws.
cecil, william, 1st baron burghley— Said in 1585.
— Simonds D'Ewes, The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (1682), p. 350.
Look round, the wrecks of play behold; estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.
john gay— John Gay, Fables (1727), Part II, Fable 12.
Burke said there were Three estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact, - very momentous to us in these times.
— Thomas Carlyle (1859). On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures: Reported. Wiley & Halsted. pp. 147, Lect. V: "The Hero as Man of Letters".
Burke said there were Three estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
thomas carlyle— Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship. Lecture V. Burke is credited with having invented the term, but it does not appear in his published works. The "three estates of the realm" are the Lords Spiritual, The Lords Temporal, and the Commons. David Lindslay—Ane pleasant satyre of the Three Estatis. (1535). Rabelais—in Pantagruel, 4–48 describes a monk, a falconer, a lawyer, and a husbandman called the "four estates of the island." (Les quatre estatz de l'isle).
