 Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to vise their freedom.  Recollections of Mexico - Page 245by Waddy Thompson - 1846 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Mason Duncan - Creeds - 1826 - 154 pages
...theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos." Or, as was stated in the "Remarks," — "in society individuals will approximate to, or recede from... | |
 | John Mason Duncan - Creeds - 1834 - 276 pages
...correct each other. The scattered fragments of truth cease to conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos." The lovers of creeds are exceedingly afraid of LIBERTY in the church. They are assured that confusion... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be * Orlando Furioso, Canto 43. free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the... | |
 | Criticism - 1848 - 628 pages
...theories correct eachother. The scattered elements of truth cease to conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of chaos."* 2. Fears have been expressed for France on account of the establishment of universal suffrage.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...elements of truth cease to conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and onler out knowing any thing whatever about the transactions...proceeded to invent stories which might justify its a am fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to... | |
 | Nahum Capen - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1848 - 350 pages
...are not to be exempted * "There is only one cure," says Macaulay, "for the evils which newly-acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom ! When...of justice and order is educed out of the chaos." from national calamities, if they permit national evils and national wrongs ; that national greatness... | |
 | Charles Buxton - Philanthropists - 1848 - 652 pages
...DOWN SLAVERY. CHAT. XVI. struggle, was that hope given up ; so plausible does the proposition seem, that " no people ought to be free 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... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...cor28 reet each other ; the scattered elements of truth cease to conflict and begin to coalesce ; and at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. 30 maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed...proposition, that no people ought to be free till they am u' to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed...proposition, that no people ought to be free till they arc fi< to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to... | |
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