 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...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,...object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...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 - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...situations where those who appear the most stirring in the scene may possibly not be the real movers. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is...object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. Often the desire... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...where those who appear the most stirring in the scene may possibly not be the real movers. * * * * Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is...object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. ยป Often the desire... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...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,...object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...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,...object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hand--. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas,...object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened , you... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...situations where those who appear the most stirring in the scene may possibly not be the real movers. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is...object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. Often the desire... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to hberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on...object ; "and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you... | |
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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.... 
