 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 - Page 13by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 pages
...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 maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 232 pages
...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 vise their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 200 pages
...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 maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1892 - 934 pages
...they will soon be aife to bear it. In a few years men leam to reason. The extreme violence of opinions subsides. Hostile theories correct each other. The...politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it dowi. as a selfevident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit tc use their freedom.... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - Readers - 1892 - 546 pages
...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 maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 104 pages
...other. The scattered elements of truth cease to conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a so system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos....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... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney Lansing - Spellers - 1892 - 224 pages
...subsides ; hostile theories correct each other ; the scattered elements of trath cease to contend, and begin to coalesce ; and at length a system of...politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it flown as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 244 pages
...theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to contend, and begin to coalesce. 25 And at length a system of justice and order is educed...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Authors, English - 1893 - 256 pages
...theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to contend, and begin to coalesce. 25 And at length a system of justice and order is educed...proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedoi". The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to... | |
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