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
| James Milton O'Neill, Craven Laycock, Robert Leighton Scales - 1917 - 520 páginas
...law, because Publius Mucius was skilled in both." 1 Macaulay makes striking use of this device: — "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... | |
| Ramananda Chatterjee - 1917 - 514 páginas
...I can do no better than present the following passage from Macaulay's famous Essay on Milton : — "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... | |
| Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 páginas
...elements of truth cease to contend, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and 5 order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians...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... | |
| 1919 - 364 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 ma^im is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to... | |
| William Cowper Brann - 1919 - 336 páginas
...This class of dunderheads is not peculiar to our day. More than seventy years ago Macaulay said : " Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...selfevident proposition, that no people ought to be free until they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved... | |
| Maurice Gerschon Hindus - 1920 - 356 páginas
...of truth cease to contend and begin to coalesce, and at last a system of justice and order is educed of the chaos. "Many politicians of our time are in...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... | |
| 1920 - 202 páginas
...acquired freedom produces; and that cure is more freedom. . . . Many politicians [and business men] of our time are in the habit of laying it down as...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... | |
| 1920 - 418 páginas
...acquired freedom produces; and that cure is more freedom. . . . Many politicians [and business men] of our time are in the habit of laying it down as...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... | |
| 1921 - 274 páginas
...newly acquired freedom produces ; and that cure is more freedom. Many politicians and many business men of our time are in the habit of laying it down as...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... | |
| Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 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... | |
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