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" Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which... "
The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal - Page 191
1834
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...other, and those no small benefits, from considering our liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itsetf to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires...
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The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections

British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...considering our liberties in the . light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonised forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself...descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native diguity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who...
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The Public and Private Life of His Late...Majesty, George the Third ...

Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...no small, benefits from considering our liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit...is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a honorable descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...other, and those no small benefits, from considering our liberties in the light of an inheritance. e hcar-hims rose from prevenía that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...other, and those no small benefits, from considering our liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers,...idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of hahitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing...
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The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volume 1

Leonard Withington - Digital images - 1836 - 532 pages
...appropriated to the diffusion of good principles, good schoolmasters, and good clergymen. THE PURITAN. No. 21. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers,...misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. Burke. SOMEWHKKE in the writings of Montesquieu, it is laid down as a fundamental law of historical...
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The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volume 1

Leonard] [Withington - 1836 - 256 pages
...appropriated to the diffusion of good principles, good schoolmasters, and good clergymen. THE PURITAN. No. 21. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers,...itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awfiri gravity. Burke. SOMEWHERE in the writings of Montesquieu, it is laid down as a fundamental law...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 15

1844 - 532 pages
...generations and incentives to future enterprize, in hope of results equally brilliant and memorable. . " Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom carries an imposing and majestic aspect; it has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors ; it has its...
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Shilling Magazine VOL.VI.July-December

Douglas Jerrold's - 1847 - 586 pages
...our 'hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. . . . Always acting as if in the presence of canonised forefathers, the Spirit of Freedom, leading in itself...misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. . . . Those opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in our old...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 6

1847 - 566 pages
...our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. . . . Always acting as if in the presence of canonised forefathers, the Spirit of Freedom, leading in itself...misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. . . . Those opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in our old...
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