 | Jack P. Greene - 1992 - 422 страници
...people seemed to exhibit very little respect for authority. "A love of freedom," Burke believed, was "stronger in the English colonies, probably, than in any other people of the earth,"25 "No people in the world," echoed the Pennsylvania lawyer Joseph Galloway, "have higher notions... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 страници
...force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fiece spirit of Liberty is stronger in the English Colonies...and the direction which this spirit takes, it will not be amiss to lay open somewhat more largely. •" caught... of it in 1778 Vranee allied with the... | |
 | Barry Alan Shain - 1996 - 422 страници
...Burke noted, "a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes" Americans, for "this fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in...colonies probably than in any other people of the earth."3 It is difficult to examine the written record of 18th-century America without coming to such... | |
 | James Conniff - 1994 - 384 страници
...obvious, but the third, the freedom-loving spirit of the Americans, was not. In fact, Burke argued, "this fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the...colonies, probably, than in any other people of the earth . . ." 52 Nor did he consider this character the result of chance; in good Scottish Enlightenment style,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 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... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 страници
...them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fieree spirit of liherty is stronger in the English colonies, probably, than...in any other people of the earth, and this from a variety of powerful causes, which, to understand the true temper of their minds, and the direction... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 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 descendents of... | |
 | Patricia U. Bonomi - 2003 - 328 страници
...On March 22. 1775, Edmund Burke addressed Parliament on the subject of the American rebellion. The "fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English...Colonies probably than in any other people of the earth," declared Burke, ascrihing this feature of the American character to the colonists' English origins,... | |
 | James Macdonald - 2003 - 590 страници
...Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole. . . . This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies, probably, that in any other people of the earth, and this from a great variety of causes. . . . First the peoples... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2005 - 918 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 this from a great variety of powerful causes. ... In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle... | |
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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... 
