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... liberty on any standard . Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites . . . . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed ...
... liberty on any standard . Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites . . . . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed ...
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... liberty to the human spirit . Much of his thought was influenced by Plato , from whom he borrowed the metaphor of ... liberty , and had given civilisation to the west , but the meaning had been lost as men sank beneath the twin tyrannies ...
... liberty to the human spirit . Much of his thought was influenced by Plato , from whom he borrowed the metaphor of ... liberty , and had given civilisation to the west , but the meaning had been lost as men sank beneath the twin tyrannies ...
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... liberty ' . ( The True Voice of Feeling , p . 271. ) The theme of liberty recurs in his Ode to Liberty ( 1820 ) in which , in spite of his natural repugnance to violence , he celebrated the Spanish revolts of that year : My soul spurned ...
... liberty ' . ( The True Voice of Feeling , p . 271. ) The theme of liberty recurs in his Ode to Liberty ( 1820 ) in which , in spite of his natural repugnance to violence , he celebrated the Spanish revolts of that year : My soul spurned ...
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Contents Acknowledgements 6 | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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