 | 1845 - 778 pages
...exterior of servitude, liberty looks among them like something lhat is more noble and liberal. * * Such were all the ancient commonwealths — such were...masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves." These remarks of Burke account for Southern influence more correctly than the logic of John Quincey... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...colonies are murh more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothick ancestors; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...colonies are much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothick ancestors; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...colonies are much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than and the instruction of the ignorant, they have incorporated...identified the estate of the church with the mass of comhines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. Permit me, Sir, to add... | |
 | 1835 - 804 pages
...exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. " + * Such were all the ancient Commonwealths ; such were...ancestors ; such, in our days, were the Poles ; and st«A will be all masters oj simes who are not slaves themsilres. In such a people, the haughtiness... | |
 | William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 318 pages
...are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those of the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths;...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." To him who contemplates the "high and haughty" virtues of the south, and then recurs to the treachery... | |
 | William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 324 pages
...are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those of the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths;...the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves ivho are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit... | |
 | Abolitionists - 1836 - 444 pages
...are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those of the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths;...the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves toho are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...colonies are much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than t be safe, or might be endangered, in twenty other particulars, without their Gothick ancestors; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are... | |
 | George Croly - Politicians - 1840 - 334 pages
...Colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to Liberty, than those to the Northward. Such were all the ancient...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." His observation on the general taste for legal studies which predominated in America is expressive.... | |
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I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ;... 
