 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...found. 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 the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates ; or on the balance among the several orders of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...found. Liberty inheres in some sensible objects ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion...of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates ; or on the balance among the several orders of the... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...found. 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 the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...found. 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 the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion...the contests in the ancient common-wealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates ; or. en the balance among the several orden of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; "and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion...you know, Sir, that the great contests for freedom iu this country were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing. Most of the contests... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...found. 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 the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates ; or on the balance among the several orders of the... | |
 | North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...American Revolution entered upon its military phase, that : " The great contests for freedom . . . were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question...of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...Absiraet liberty, like other mere abstractions, i* not be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite...know, sir, that the great contests for freedom in il.is country were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing. Most of the contest!... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...criterion of their happiness. It happened, you enow, «¡r, that tlie great contests for freedom in country were from the earliest times chiefly upon...of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magi4trates; or on the balance among the sevenl orders of the... | |
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you... 
