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... The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 326by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...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 - 244 pages
...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 - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1815 - 402 pages
...the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controuling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere,...passions forge their fetters. This sentence the prevalent purl of your countrymen execute on themselves. They possessed, cot long since what was next to freedom,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...attached to the door of the publisher's office, for the reception oY communications for "The Friend." It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things,...intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.—Ed. Burke. Deep humility is a strong bulwark; and as we enter into it, we find safety and... | |
| Ralph Randolph Gurley - African Americans - 1835 - 576 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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