 Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a 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 not to go into the water...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 13por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1910 - 666 páginas
...clearly expressed by England's great historian, Macaulay, who, in his essay on Milton, declared that ' ' many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...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... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1911 - 492 páginas
...proposition, (2) Note the arguments, whether of fact or of theory, that support the proposition. 1. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 páginas
...opinion subsides. Hostile theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to contend, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 192 páginas
...opinions subsides. Hostile theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to contend, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice...laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no 10 people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 360 páginas
...and begin to coalesce. ""And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. M Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...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... | |
 | George A.. Donnelly - 1916 - 854 páginas
...opinions subsides. Hostile theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to contend and begin to coalesce. And, at length a system of...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... | |
 | Louis Freeland Post - 1916 - 430 páginas
...wholesome in all its processes. PART VI DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT — Speech at Gettysburg, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...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... | |
 | 1916 - 804 páginas
...of freedom of speech guaranteed us by the First Amendment to the Constitution? LIBERTY OAK, BOSTON Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...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... | |
 | Antoinette Knowles - 1916 - 376 páginas
...of which the middle classes disapproved then, and of which they disapprove still." 2. From Macaulay: "Many politicians of our time are in the habit of...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... | |
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