 Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 7141910Full view - About this book
 | Sir Samuel Romilly - Lawyers - 1840 - 468 pages
...their freedom. Freedom," he adds, "is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks among them like something that is more noble and liberal." On such authority, these West Indian declaimers... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1841 - 834 pages
...still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolina! they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is...something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...this country and in England, this word has been strnngely altered into •!>! 274 fl774 and "eneral m your enemies than from yourself. Persecuted abroad,...your own heart for consolation, and find nothing b among them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad "111 Chapman's Select Speeches, and in some editions of Burke, both in this country «nil in England,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad 14 In Chapman's Select Speeches, and in some editions of Burke, both in this country and in England,... | |
 | Robert Young Hayne - Foot's resolution, 1829 - 1852 - 90 pages
...freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, that it may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where...air, may be united with much abject toil, with great miserys with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 1853 - 972 pages
...is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seein:; there that freednm, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad "In Chapman's Select Speeches, and in some editions of Burke, both in this country and in England,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 276 pages
...there, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, that it may be united with much abject toil, with great misery,...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks among them like something more noble and liberal. Ido not mean, sir, to commend the superior morality... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 234 pages
...freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, that it may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude,... | |
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