| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such -were our Gothic ancestors; such in... | |
| Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1806 - 428 pages
...something that is " more noble and liberal. Thus, the people of the " southern colonies of America, are much more ' " strongly, and with a higher and...stubborn " spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the " northward. Such were all the ancient common" wealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. " The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothick ancestors : such... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothick ancestors : such... | |
| Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1810 - 186 pages
...exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. The people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those of the northern. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; and such will be the masters of slaves,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in... | |
| England - 1833 - 1006 pages
...least as much pride as virtue in it; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and the people of the Southern Colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to Liberty, than those to the Northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in... | |
| Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in... | |
| Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...least as much pride as virtue in it; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those of the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in... | |
| |