| 1835 - 932 páginas
...selfevident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved...become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever. Therefore it is that we decidedly approve of the conduct of Milton and the other wise and... | |
| 1848 - 628 páginas
...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim I If men are to wait for liberty till they have become wise and good in slavery, they... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 páginas
...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery,... | |
| Waddy Thompson - 1846 - 336 páginas
...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story^ who resolved...become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever." It is entirely true that it is not by keeping men in dark rooms that they are taught to... | |
| Waddy Thompson - 1846 - 336 páginas
...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story( who resolved...go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If 13* men are to wait for liberty, till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for... | |
| 1872 - 500 páginas
...without indignation. Mit dem Indicativ findet sich till ohne grossen Unterschied von shall I, 41: If man are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever. Im Deutschen kann man die Kraft dieses Indicative durch „wirklieh" verdeutlichen. Ferner... | |
| George Washington Light - 1847 - 398 páginas
...idolatry of the masses 'for a Constitution which they, in too many cases, neither •read nor understand. IF men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may wait forever. — MACAULEY. KEEP AT WORK. Bv GW LIGHT. DOES a mountain on you frown ? Keep at work:... | |
| Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1848 - 638 páginas
...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved...and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever." PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY. — Professor Agassiz and Dr. AA Gould have prepared this book, which is published... | |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - 646 páginas
...till they are fit to use their freedom." " Yet this maxim," says a brilliant writer of our day, " is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved...become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever ! " * What, then, was to be done ? should things be left as they were ? To Mr. Buxton the... | |
| Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 páginas
...selfevident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved...become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever." POETRY. But not their joys alone thus coarsely flow ; Their morals, like their pleasures,... | |
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