| Richard Salter Storrs - 1875 - 82 páginas
...distinguishing the whole. The people of the colonies were descendants of Englishmen. They were, therefore, " not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas ; " and so they were fundamentally opposed, with all the force of immemorial tradition, to that taxation without... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 páginas
...; 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. Il happened, you... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - 1876 - 536 páginas
...Life and Writings of John Jay, II., p. 410. Edmund Burke writes: "They [the colonists] 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." Works, II., pp.... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - 1876 - 534 páginas
...Life and Writings of John Jay, II., p. 410. Edmund Burke writes: "They [the colonists] are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according...and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like oiher mere abstractions, is not to be fouud. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1877 - 582 páginas
...; 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... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - 1877 - 538 páginas
...Life and Writings of John Jay, II., p. 410. Edmund Burke writes: "They [the colonists] are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according...inheres in some sensible object; and every nation h:is formed in itself some favorite point which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their... | |
| Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 364 páginas
...life in a contest for the right of the people to a parliament of their own. " Liberty," said Burke, " inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of its happiness. It happened that... | |
| 1878 - 446 páginas
...predominant; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. I'hey are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according...itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence o 2 becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, sir, that the great contests for... | |
| James De Mille - 1878 - 584 páginas
...be found in the following passage from his speech on Conciliation with America : "They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 páginas
...not only devoted to lib- 25 erty, but to^iberty according to English ideas and on English principlesy Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is...object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point which, byway of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness. It 30 happened,... | |
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