 | William Alfred Browne - Civil service - 1868 - 114 pages
...her freedom. The colonists emigrated from yoa when this part of your character was most predominant, and they took this bias and direction the moment they...liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and English principles." To what colonies do these words refer ? Explain this passage, noting (I) the circumstances... | |
 | Charles E. Grinnell - Bible - 1871 - 404 pages
...the distinguishing characteiistic of the whole people. As the descendants of Englishmen, they were " not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas," and so were fundamentally opposed, with all the force of immemo• rial tradition, to taxation without... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - Emigration and immigration - 1875 - 120 pages
...feature, distinguishing the whole. The people of the colonies were descendants of Englishmen. They were, therefore, " not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas ;" and so they were fundamentally opposed, with all the force of immemorial tradition, to that taxation without... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1876 - 534 pages
...See also the Life and Writings of John Jay, II., p. 410. Edmund Burke writes: "They [the colonists] are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to...and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like oiher mere abstractions, is not to be fouud. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; se I have called and you refused, I have stretched...but ye have set at nanght all my counsel, and would favourite point which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, yon... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...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...object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, yon... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1877 - 538 pages
...See also the Life and Writings of John Jay, II., p. 410. Edmund Burke writes: "They [the colonists] are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to...inheres in some sensible object; and every nation h:is formed in itself some favorite point which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 364 pages
...life in a contest for the right of the people to a parliament of their own. " Liberty," said Burke, " inheres in some sensible object; and every nation...which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of its happiness. It happened that the great contests for freedom in this country were, from the earliest... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1883 - 396 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...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. I'hey are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on... | |
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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.... 
