 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 276 pages
...there, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, that it may be united with much abject toil, with great misery,...servitude, liberty looks among them like something more noble and liberal. Ido not mean, sir, to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, -which,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 234 pages
...freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, that it may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude,... | |
 | American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. . . . Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, Sir, to commend the superior... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 242 pages
...any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most prond and jealous of their freedom. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where...toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitnde, liberty looks amongst them like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean... | |
 | E. N. Elliott, David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge - Citizenship - 1860 - 934 pages
...jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where...be united with much abject toil, with great misery _ with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble... | |
 | E. N. Elliott - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1860 - 1310 pages
...blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery t with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks,...noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the peculiar morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I can not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, hut a kind of rank and privilege. regulations as much as the gentlemen do who talk of . them. But ther hlessing, and as hroad and general as tho air, may he united with much ahject toil, with great misery,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not feeling there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, Sir, to commend the superior... | |
 | Reverdy Johnson - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1863 - 764 pages
...jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where...blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may bo united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks,... | |
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Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where... 
