 | 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 - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 115 In preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling...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 - 1804 - 244 pages
...are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 115 in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling...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
...are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 175 in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling...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,... | |
 | John James M'Gregor - 1816 - 508 pages
...somewhere; and the less •f it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordain*d by the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free—Their passions forge their fetters." It is perhaps not generally known that Mr. Thomas Paine... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 390 pages
...Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the Jess of it there is within, the more there must be without....wellpoised free constitution. It did not suit their taste or their temper. They carved for themselves ; they flew out, murdered, robbed, and rebelled They have... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 520 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,...well-poised free constitution. It did not suit their taste or their temper. They carved for themselves ; they flew out, murdered, robbed, and rebelled. They have... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling...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... | |
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot... 
