 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient...Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 pages
...are not flaves themfelves. In fuch a people the haughtinefs of domination, combines with the fpirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. Permit me, Sir, to add another circumftance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and eflect of this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the antient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. GAMING. IT is a great mistake, that the desire of securing property is universal among mankind. Gaming... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all -the antient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. GAMING. IT is a great mistake, that the desire of securing property is universal among mankind. Gaming... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1806 - 428 pages
...northward. Such were all the ancient common" wealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such " in our days are the Poles; and such will be all " masters of slaves, who are not slaves them" selves.''* i Possibly too, the climate itself, by increasing sensibility, contributes to create... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1807 - 646 pages
...Such were all the ancient common" wealths ; such were our Gothick ancestors; " such in our days arc the Poles ; and such will •" be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves " themselves (c)." POSSIBLY too, the climate itself, by increasing sensibility, contributes to create an impatience... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...colonies are much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothick ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothick ancestors : such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothick ancestors : such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are... | |
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - 1810 - 186 pages
...liberty than those of the northern. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; and such will be the masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves....freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." * But it relaxes the sinews of industry, corrupts the morals, and checks amelioration. Fallow lands,... | |
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I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ;... 
