| Sir Henry Parkes - Australia - 1892 - 718 pages
...through this litany of pretences. We are told by Burke that where there is 'a vast multitude of slaves, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.' Hence the rebellious spirit of Virginia and North and South Carolina at the beginning of the revolutionary... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1892 - 400 pages
...and in those to the North-ward. It is, that in Virj Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. is the case in any part of the -world, those who are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom dom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale - History - 1897 - 410 pages
...Discussing the discontents in America in 1775, Mr. Burke said that " where multitudes of slaves are found those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not merely an enjoyment but a kind of rank and privilege. . . . Such were all the ancient commonwealths... | |
| Elias J. MacEwan - Debates and debating - 1898 - 440 pages
...northward. It is that in Virginia and the Caroliuas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are...freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, hut a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1898 - 168 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 jfreej are by far the most proud and jealous oftheir freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment,... | |
| Orators - 1899 - 542 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...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... | |
| Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 542 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...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - United States - 1899 - 178 pages
...northward. It is that 20 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...proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them0 not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and 25 privilege. Not seeing there, that freedom, as... | |
| Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - English language - 1899 - 550 pages
...they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who ar? free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their...an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.— BURKE: Speech on Conciliation. Failure to use connectives frequently results in obscurity. Compare... | |
| Susan Bullitt Dixon ("Mrs. Archibald Dixon, ") - Missouri compromise - 1899 - 654 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...far the most proud and jealous of their freedom." 8 It was also shown that the South contributed indirectly far more to the support of the government... | |
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