 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty...according to English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
 | 1775 - 868 pages
...predominant ; and they rook this biafs and direction the moment they parted frorti your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on Englilh principles. Abftra& Liberty, like other mere abftraflions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty...according to English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty...according to English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hand--. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty...according to English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty...according to English ideas., and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...history, religion and education, from the practice of their free local assemblies, that the colonists were "not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on 'English principles ;" and thence by an unbroken chain of reasoning, of illustration, of multiplied precedents and accumulated... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...predominant; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty...according to English ideas, and on English principles. Absiraet liberty, like other mere abstractions, i* not be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object;... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty...according to English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
 | John Sanderson - United States - 1827 - 362 pages
...Conciliation with America,'' placed that question in its true light, when he said of the colonists, " they are not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible... | |
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England, sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands.... 
