 ... 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...  English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray - Էջ 257խմբագրել է - 1888 - 333 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1775 - 868 էջ
...character was molt predominant ; and they rook this biafs and direction the moment they parted frorti your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to...but to liberty according to English ideas, and on Englilh principles. Abftra& Liberty, like other mere abftraflions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres... | |
 | Josiah Tucker - 1775 - 68 էջ
...Charafter was " moft predominant. And they took this " Biafs and Direction the Moment they parted , £ from your Hands. They are therefore not ** only devoted to Liberty, but to Liberty ac**•. cording to Englijh Ideas, and on Englijh Erin— " ciples:—It happened, you know, Sir, that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 էջ
...your character was moft predominant ; and they took . this bials and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to Englifh ideas, and on Englifh principles. Abftract liberty, like other mere abftuctions, is not to... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 էջ
...bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore riot only devoted tq liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles. ' From thence, he says, the Americans inferred, that they must possess the power of granting their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 էջ
...your character was moft predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to Englifh ideas, and on Englifh principles. Abftract liberty, like other mere abftractions, is not to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 452 էջ
...your character was moft predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to Englifh ideas, and on Englifh. principles. Abftract liberty, like other mere abftractions, is not to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 էջ
...from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to ungltsh ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty,...not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible objects ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes... | |
 | 1897 - 808 էջ
...history, religion and education, from the practice of their free local assemblies, that the colonists were "not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on 'English principles ;" and thence by an unbroken chain of reasoning, of illustration, of multiplied precedents and accumulated... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 էջ
...of your character was most predominant; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted...according to English ideas, and on English principles. Absiraet liberty, like other mere abstractions, i* not be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object;... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 518 էջ
...direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, bu' to liberty according to English ideas, and on English...Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not be found Liberty inheres in some sensible ot>ect; and every nation bus formed to itself ecme avori'e... | |
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