 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...her freedom. The Colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant;2 and they took this bias and direction the moment they...not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object;3 and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point which, by way of eminence, becomes... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1885 - 492 pages
...with it French political theories in the United States. Edmund Burke wrote that the colonists were " not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles," yet there is a prevalent impression that the influence of France converted this English feeling into... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Readers - 1866 - 402 pages
...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...according to English ideas, and on English principles. It happened, you know, Sir, that the great contests for freedom in this ^country were from the earliest... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...reasons why Stuarts (namely, James I. and military force should not be employed to coerce the colonies. you when this part of your character was most predominant...your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to lib-n5 erty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles. Abstract liberty,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1886 - 504 pages
...with it French political theories in the United States. Edmund Burke wrote that the colonists were " not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles," yet there is a prevalent impression that the influence of France converted this English feeling into... | |
 | Augustus Wood Clason - Constitutional conventions - 1888 - 190 pages
...colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant, and they took the bias and direction the moment they parted from your...liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and upon English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Libberty... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - English prose literature - 1888 - 368 pages
...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...they took this bias and direction the moment they departed from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according... | |
 | William Henry Parr Greswell, Royal Colonial Institute, London - History - 1890 - 402 pages
...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...according to English ideas and on English principles.' And so we are led up to the true idea of Imperial Federation, an idea which is based upon the worthiness... | |
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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 they... 
