 | English literature - 1841 - 380 pages
...his lot who has humbler merits, but who is capable of soaring with him to a certain height : — one on whose opened eyes and heart the flowery earth and...lying. The first privation of freedom consists in this — that we must not say what we wish, nor what we think. In the secrecy of prayer we say it to... | |
 | English literature - 1841 - 376 pages
...it is, and no more, to which the author of this history limits his wishes. Jean Paul. (Siebaiktls.) To have freedom, is only to have that which is absolutely...lying. The first privation of freedom consists in this, — that we must not say what we wish, nor what we think. In the secrecy of prayer we say it... | |
 | English literature - 1841 - 378 pages
...which the author of this history limits his wishes. Jean Paul. (SiebenkOs.) To have freedom, is onlv to have that which is absolutely necessary to enable...lying. The first privation of freedom consists in this, — that we must not say what we wish, nor what we think. In the secrecy of prayer we say it... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...sceptici-m or unbelief of a deadly kind. But what are the teachings of experience ? Are they not that "to have freedom is only to have that which is absolutely...necessary to enable us to be what we ought to be, ami to possess what we ought to possess ?" Do they not confirm the doctrine that freedom is strength... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...apprehensions Keep leets, and law-days, and in session sit With meditations lawful ? . — RaJiel. have Freedom, is only to have that which is absolutely...ought to be, and to possess what we ought to possess. dFwtrOtlt, — Charming . T'HE only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's... | |
 | 1863 - 594 pages
...common property by the bigot, let из freely understand the substance of true liberty — that it " is only to have that which is absolutely necessary...ought to be, and to possess what we ought to possess." EDUCATION AND DRUNKENNESS. NOTHING is more common now a days than for the organs of public opinion... | |
 | 1872 - 738 pages
...schoolmate who is a conscientious student as doing it probably because she has " got to teach." To HATE freedom is only to have that which is absolutely necessary to enable us to be what we ought to be and possess what we ought to THOUGHT engenders thought. Learn to think, and you will learn to write ; the... | |
 | Cecil Haselwood - 1879 - 332 pages
...me. I'll be an old maid, and have no lord or master. I will have freedom. Does not Eahel say — " ' To have freedom- is only to have that which is absolutely...ought to be, and to possess what we ought to possess ' ? " How bitter my voice sounds 1 " Nell, why are you saying all this ? It sounds to me very much... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 476 pages
...let us hope that human rights will be respected without waiting to have them re-enforced by numbers. To have freedom, is only to have that which is absolutely...ought to be, and to possess what we ought to possess. A sense of right, justice and power, demands freedom. Female elevation and consequent liberty are the... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...may see the foulest thought My Heart does hold. CI)e trulM JFm. — Horace. •fttttSttm, — Rabel. TO have Freedom, is only to have that which is absolutely necessary to enable us to be what we ought to I'.', and to possess what we ought to possess. JfrienttSI)tp. — Joanna Raillie. FRIENDSHIP is no... | |
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To have freedom, is only to have that which is absolutely necessary to enable us to be what we ought to be, and to possess what we ought to possess. 
