 | 1899 - 616 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1899 - 202 страници
...is 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...Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is 20 not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1899 - 178 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...on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other 10 mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation... | |
 | Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford - 1899 - 74 страници
...ideas and on2 English principles. Abstract liberty, 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 eminence4 becomes6 the criterion of their happiness. BURKE. — On... | |
 | George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - 1924 - 608 страници
...hangs over from the past and makes the American people as averse to action as a replete lion. Moreover, "abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is...be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object." In America, as in England, continues Edmund Burke, this object has ever been taies. " . . . The great... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 1986 - 430 страници
...precisely because they too equate liberty with property and happiness with interest. "They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according...not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object."16 Herein lies the double irony. Even before Burke had spoken, English officials did not see... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 страници
...the colonies Burke attacked "refined policy" as the eternal "parent of confusion." He held, too, that "abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is...not to 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... | |
 | David Wootton - 1994 - 518 страници
...Atlantic with an eye to the history of the development of self-government in Britain and insisted that Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is...object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened . .... | |
 | Ali Farazmand - 1994 - 724 страници
...predominant; 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. Key among these English principles as developed by opposition theorists was the concept of a mixed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 страници
...predominant; 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... | |
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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... 
