 First, the people of the colonies are descendants of Englishmen. 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...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 33by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 136 pages
...a nation, which still I go hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most...your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to 25 liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 274 pages
...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...direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are there570 fore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Civil service - 1900 - 278 pages
...Parliament, " is stronger in the English Colonies, probably, than in any other people of the earth. They are not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles." A 8 i 6 "OUR FOREMOST FRIEND And again, " We cannot falsify, I fear, the pedigree of this fierce people,... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...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 anrl 160 direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty,... | |
 | Ada Russell - 1922 - 210 pages
...seventeenth century this characteristic was most prominent, and the colonists, he told Parliament, 'took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands.' They were therefore not only devoted to liberty, 'but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - England - 1922 - 360 pages
...so, — and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of the matter." . . . "Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty adheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which... | |
 | Armistead Churchill Gordon - Virginia - 1923 - 186 pages
..."stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth" ; and that they were "not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and our English principles." The "Chapters of Virginia History" included in this volume had their origin... | |
 | Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler - Constitutional history - 1924 - 424 pages
...spirit of liberty." First, "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 on English principles." Second, "their governments were popular in a high degree," in all "the popular representative is the... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1921 - 442 pages
...think so, — and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of the matter." " Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty adheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which... | |
 | George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - Periodicals - 1924 - 608 pages
...hangs over from the past and makes the American people as averse to action as a replete lion. Moreover, "abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is...be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object." In America, as in England, continues Edmund Burke, this object has ever been taies. " . . . The great... | |
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