 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; such were our Gothic ancestors; such,...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 36by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic re always to be found where a government is mild and...compassion, and preventing the weight of taxation from 5. Permit me, sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part toward... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 362 pages
...freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. . . . In such a case the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." And this sagacious observer recognized the fact, and sought to have Parliament recognize it also, that,... | |
 | 1890 - 790 pages
...commonwealths, such were our Gothic ancestors, and such in our day, the Poles; and such will be all masters who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the...freedom, fortifies it and renders it invincible." Men of Southern birth and Southern rearing were the successful generals in the war of 1812, and the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...the way I take is not the road to preferment. Bi'RKE: Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774. the highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life, there will be unliactabje spirit: I mean their education. In no country, perhaps, in the world is law so general... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not 135 slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1923 - 292 pages
...one of his great speeches, referring to the American Colonists at the time of the Revolution, says : "Permit me, sir, to add another circumstance in our Colonies, which contributes no mean part toward the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country, perhaps,... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and...renders it invincible. Permit me, sir, to add another circumstanee in our Colonies, which contributes no mean pai't towards the growth and effect of this... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1883 - 612 pages
...of republicanism, and local independent sovereignty. to the intelligence of the American people. ' Permit me, sir, to add another circumstance in our...no mean part towards the growth and effect of this intractable spirit. / mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world, is the law so general... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 504 pages
...sentiments, and with a strong aversion from whatever tends to deprive them of their chief importance. Permit me, sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part 8 towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I -mean their education. In no country,... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 344 pages
...liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such, in our days, were the Poles, and...circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part toward the growth and effect of this untractable spirit — I mean their education. In no country perhaps... | |
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