Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which... Gatherings from many authors, by P.S. Sparling - Page 86redigeeritud poolt - 1854Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 lehte
...liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule...this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 lehte
...liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule...this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 lehte
...Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itsetf to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity....this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestick aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its... | |
| Dennis Taaffe - 1810 - 588 lehte
...liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule...this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 lehte
...liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonised forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule...this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree, anil illustrating ancestors. It has its... | |
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 lehte
...liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always Scting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule...this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings... | |
| 1834 - 566 lehte
...for our institutions, he says, — " Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule...this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. Ithas its bearings... | |
| 1821 - 362 lehte
...liberties in the . light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonised forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule...descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native diguity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who... | |
| Robert Huish - 1821 - 746 lehte
...liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule...is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a honorable descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 lehte
...liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule...this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings... | |
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