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 use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water... Macaulay's Essays on Addison and Milton - Page 29by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1835 - 932 pages
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be * Orlando FurioBO, Canto 43. free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...ought to be * Orlando Furioso, Canto 43. free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim ia worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim! If men are to. wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may... | |
| Criticism - 1848 - 628 pages
...brilliancy leads many to overlook his profound political philosophy. " Many politicians of our time arc in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition,...not to go into the water till he had learned to swim I If men are to wait for liberty till they have become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...the old story, who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery,... | |
| Waddy Thompson - Mexico - 1846 - 330 pages
...conflict, and begin to coalesce ; — at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. " Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty, till they become wise and good in slavery, they may... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and onler is educed out of the chaos. er about the transactions in his family, flew into...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... | |
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