 | Charles Henry Peck - United States - 1899 - 494 pages
...191. Edmund Burke's explanation is more profound. In speaking of the Southern colonies, he said : " Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. ... In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 274 pages
...northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are...by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. 675 Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 464 pages
...northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far~the most proud and jealous of tlieiFfreedom.^ FreeoTbm~iiTto them not only an enjoyment, but a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 136 pages
...northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have avast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, 15 are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 608 pages
...northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude, of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are...seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it.is a common blessing, and as broad and general as iffe'air, may be united with much abject toil,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 450 pages
...a vast multitude of slaves, said Burke, with his habitual profound insight into political forces, " those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous...in countries where it is a common blessing, and as 1 By permission of Longmans, Green. & Co. broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1901 - 186 pages
...of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Free15 dom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank...as broad and general as the air, may be united with riuch abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, 20 liberty looks, amongst... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1901 - 522 pages
...the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast number of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are...jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there thut freedom, as in countries where it... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 600 pages
...than in others, because they had a multitude of slaves; and "where this is the case," he affirmed, " in any part of the world, those who are free, are...by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. . . . The haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1901 - 182 pages
...can be fully appreciated only by those readers to whom the half-quoted phrases are familiar. Freedom is a "common blessing, and as broad and general as the air"; "Clouds indeed and darkness rest upon the future"; "When the day-star of the English constitution had... | |
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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. 
