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" Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. "
Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart - Page 200
by Charles Buxton - 1866 - 614 pages
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...selfevident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved...and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever. Therefore it is that we decidedly approve of the conduct of Milton and the other wise and good men...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...people ought to be * Orlando FurioBO, Canto 43. free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved...become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever. Therefore it is that we decidedly approve of the conduct of Milton and the other wise and...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...ought to be * Orlando Furioso, Canto 43. free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim ia worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved...become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever. Therefore it is that we decidedly approve of .the conduct of Milton and the other wise and...
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The New Englander, Volume 6

1848 - 628 pages
...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim I If men are to wait for liberty till they have become wise and good in slavery, they...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery,...
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Recollections of Mexico

Waddy Thompson - 1846 - 332 pages
...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story > who resolved...and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever." t I It is entirely true that it is not by keeping men in dark rooms that they are taught to discriminate...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they am fit to use their freedom. The maxim f the separation, inconsistent with each other, with themselves, and with common sense, forever. Therefore it is that we decidedly approve of the conduct of Milton and the other wise and...
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Recollections of Mexico

Waddy Thompson - 1846 - 336 pages
...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story( who resolved...go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If 13* men are to wait for liberty, till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volume 50

1872 - 500 pages
...without indignation. Mit dem Indicativ findet sich till ohne grossen Unterschied von shall I, 41: If man are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever. Im Deutschen kann man die Kraft dieses Indicative durch „wirklieh" verdeutlichen. Ferner V, 215....
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Young American's Magazine of Self-improvement, Volume 1

George Washington Light - 1847 - 398 pages
...idolatry of the masses 'for a Constitution which they, in too many cases, neither •read nor understand. IF men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may wait forever. — MACAULEY. KEEP AT WORK. Bv GW LIGHT. DOES a mountain on you frown ? Keep at work:...
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