 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 pages
...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 English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...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 English ideas and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 552 pages
...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 English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1853 - 616 pages
...the whole of the American colonies, every one of which were then slave-holding colonies : " They are, therefore, not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideal, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...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 English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...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 English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...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 English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensiT)le... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1864 - 842 pages
...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 English. ideas and on English principles. Their governments are popular in a high degree. If any thing were wanting to this necessary operation... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1864 - 472 pages
...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 English ideas, and on English principles ; " — and, in allusion to the whale fishery, " neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity... | |
 | William Alfred Browne - 1864 - 196 pages
...predominant, and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your bands. They are, therefore, not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and English principles." To what colonies do these words refer? Explain this passage, noting (1) the circumstances... | |
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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.... 
