 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 страници
...l ideas and on English principles. Abstract lib! erty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be i found. 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,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 страници
...and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are, therefore, j and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point which, by way of eminence, becomes the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 страници
...and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are, therefore, not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according...found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and you know, sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were, from the earliest times, chiefly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 страници
...; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according...abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensiT)le object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1864 - 472 страници
...and they 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 ; " — and, in allusion to the whale fishery, " neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity... | |
 | William Alfred Browne - 1864 - 196 страници
...and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your bands. They are, therefore, not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and English principles." To what colonies do these words refer? Explain this passage, noting (1) the circumstances... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 страници
...; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They 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. It happened, you... | |
 | Charles E. Grinnell - 1871 - 404 страници
...the distinguishing characteiistic of the whole people. As the descendants of Englishmen, they were " not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas," and so were fundamentally opposed, with all the force of immemo• rial tradition, to taxation without... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 786 страници
...; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They 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. It happened, you... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 страници
...and they took thi« bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are, therefore, cause it would be unparliamentary, and ho is a privy...say j he is one who has abused the privilege of Par: favorite point which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you... | |
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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... 
