 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 Seiten
...place, ' SOCIETY CANNOT EXIST UNLESS ACONTROULING POWER UPON WILL AND APPETITE BE PLACED SOMEWHERE J AND THE" LESS OF IT THERE IS WITHIN, THE MORE THERE...CANNOT BE FREE. THEIR PASSIONS FORGE THEIR FETTERS. Mr. Burke having long vie wed with anxiety the new philosophy become fashionable in France, bestowed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 Seiten
...presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 115 In preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Liberty when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate people before they declare themselves, will observe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 Seiten
...presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 115 in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Liberty when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate people before they declare themselves, will observe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 Seiten
...freedom ; and every government is called tyranny and usurpation which is not formed on their fancies. Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Liberty when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate people before they declare themselves, will observe... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 Seiten
...presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 175 in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Liberty when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate people before they declare themselves, will observe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 Seiten
...disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites ; in proportion as their love to justice is abo«e their rapacity ; in proportion as their soundness...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. MANNERS. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded... | |
 | Ralph Randolph Gurley - 1835 - 576 Seiten
...When qualified therefor, there should be no hesitation in conferring it upon them. "It is advanced in the eternal constitution of things, that men of...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." • Dr. Beecher. and ascertain whether suitable Territory could be purchased for the proposed Colony.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 Seiten
...thirst 790 28 The sensual and the dark rebel in vain — Slaves by their own compulsion. Coleridge. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things,...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Burke. Answer to Objections, §c. 69! 59 Ben'et College, Cambridge. '•>" Praised, wejit, and... | |
 | 1837 - 538 Seiten
...exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less there ia within, the more there must be without. It is ordained...cannot be free — their passions forge their fetters. — • BURKE. 1837.] THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE. THE NIGHT-BLOWING CEREUS, (Cactus grandiflora.) .......... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 Seiten
...caution ought to have been used in the reduction of the royal power, which alone was capable of holding together the comparatively heterogeneous mass of your...well-poised free constitution. It did not suit their taste or their temper. They carved for themselves ; they flew out, murdered, robbed, and rebelled. They have... | |
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding... 
