 | Armistead Churchill Gordon - 1923 - 186 страници
...SPOTSWOOD AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN HORSESHOE INDEX Burke said that the "fierce spirit of liberty" was "stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth"; and that they were "not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and our English... | |
 | Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler - 1924 - 424 страници
...the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit...colonies probably than in any other people of the earth." The picture was not overdrawn. At about the same time, James Wilson of Pennsylvania, in an address... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 страници
...the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit...and the direction which this spirit takes, it will not be amiss to lay open somewhat more largely. First, the people of the colonies are descendants of... | |
 | 1927 - 782 страници
...declared that "in the character of the Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature," and that "this fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the...colonies probably than in any other people of the earth." Mr. GK Chesterton, when he visited our country a few years ago, had nothing to say about our "fierce... | |
 | William Backus Guitteau, Hanson Hart Webster - 1926 - 240 страници
...the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit...colonies probably than in any other people of the earth." After stating a variety of reasons, he continued: "From all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty... | |
 | 1925 - 276 страници
...least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what 234 235 they think the only advantage •worth living for. This fierce spirit...colonies probably than in any other people of the earth." After stating a variety of reasons, he continued: "From all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty... | |
 | William Fletcher Russell, Thomas Henry Briggs - 1941 - 438 страници
...little string of English colonies on the distant shores of North America. XIII FIERCE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY "This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the...probably, than in any other people of the earth." — EDMUND BURKE The English who settled along the coast of North America in thirteen separate colonies... | |
 | 1904 - 1074 страници
...Empire were deeply concerned.8 England had at last found out the truth of Burke's assertion that ' the fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English Colonies probably than in any other people on the earth,' but it was some time before the principle was fully established. After Lord Durham came... | |
 | Benjamin Woods Labaree - 1976 - 276 страници
...remoteness from the mother country, Burke noted, have combined to make "the spirit of liberty . . . stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth." Burke thought it very unlikely that Great Britain could change this spirit and that it would be foolish... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 1991 - 470 страници
...authority. "A fierce spirit of liberty," declared Edmund Burke, echoing a common opinion in March 1775, was "stronger in the English colonies, probably, than in any other people of the earth."" This pervasive and deeply engraved commitment to personal freedom and independence, said Samuel Williams,... | |
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... and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than... 
