 | Alastair Davidson - 1997 - 364 страници
...Burke stated this clearly in these words: 'Abstract liberty ... is not to be found. Liberty adheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed...by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness'.3 Thus, to write about citizenship as something we do politically presumes answers to all... | |
 | James W. Vice - 1998 - 304 страници
...this in his speech On Conciliation: "[The American colonists, having come from England] are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according...object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness" (C: 59). Burke asserts... | |
 | William Roger Louis - 1998 - 404 страници
...and secure metropolitan acknowledgment of those claims, to make clear, as Burke said, that they were "not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles." On a deep, perhaps even on the very deepest, level, the American Revolution was thus the direct outgrowth... | |
 | Eric Foner - 1999 - 452 страници
...i775, Edmund Burke assured the British Parliament that the colonists were devoted not to "abstract liberty" but to "liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles." But the deepening crisis inevitably pushed Americans to ground their claims in the more abstract language... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 страници
...on English principles. Abstract liherty, like other mere abstractions, is not to he found. Liherty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point which, by way of eminence, hecomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you... | |
 | Peter James Marshall, Alaine Low - 2001 - 668 страници
...and secure metropolitan acknowledgement of those claims, to make clear, as Burke said, that they were 'not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles'."' If we can assume that the core of an Imperial identity consists of those conceptions that are most... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 2015 - 350 страници
...the colonies Burke attacked "refined policy" as the eternal "parent of confusion." He held, too, that "abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is...be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object." 51 Burke's Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777) contains a candid self-portrait of his love of... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 страници
...hardly less quick than American patriots to see the colonists as "descendants of Englishmen" who were "not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles."-' On this same account, Richard Price, whom Burke later assailed for supporting the revolution in France,... | |
 | John Lukacs - 2004 - 486 страници
...colonists . . . took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are, therefore, not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles." By the middle of the twentieth century it was obvious that most Americans did not recognize the necessity... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2005 - 428 страници
...large. "Abstract liberty," Edmund Burke observed, "like other mere abstractions, is not to be found."3 Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened . .... | |
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England, sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you, when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your... 
