 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 Seiten
...her freedom. The Colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant;2 and they took this bias and direction the moment they...not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object;3 and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point which, by way of eminence, becomes... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1885 - 492 Seiten
...with it French political theories in the United States. Edmund Burke wrote that the colonists were " not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles," yet there is a prevalent impression that the influence of France converted this English feeling into... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 Seiten
...freedom. The colonists emigrated from you, when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they...according to English ideas, and on English principles. It happened, you know, Sir, that the great contests for freedom in this ^country were from the earliest... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 Seiten
...not be employed to coerce the colonies. you when this part of your character was most predominant : and they took this bias and direction the moment they...your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to lib-n5 erty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles. Abstract liberty,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 504 Seiten
...with it French political theories in the United States. Edmund Burke wrote that the colonists were " not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles," yet there is a prevalent impression that the influence of France converted this English feeling into... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 Seiten
...mean the spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion.— Reflect. on Rev. in France. TAXATION. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 Seiten
...your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they departed from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted...object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you... | |
 | Augustus Wood Clason - 1888 - 190 Seiten
...colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant, and they took the bias and direction the moment they parted from your...liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and upon English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Libberty... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1888 - 476 Seiten
...the colonists took their " bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands." The Americans are, therefore, " not only devoted to liberty, but...according to English ideas and on English principles." The second of these " capital" causes is that the people of the colonies are Protestants, and " of... | |
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England, Sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands.... 
