 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1881 - 462 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,...upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and dis-\ gracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.! By this means our liberty becomes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1886 - 494 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 j3f__freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered. .with_an_ awful gravity. This idea... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1887 - 598 pages
...several other, and those no smal fils, from considering our liberties in the. light .of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers,...with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent Jnspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 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 30 in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1892 - 598 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,...who are the first acquirers of any distinction. By this7 . means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 588 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,...disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinetion. By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - Great Britain - 1909 - 346 pages
...manly, moral, regulated liberty. With us, Englishmen, 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." Again : " Our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It has its gallery and portraits." " Those who know... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1911 - 666 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,...dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost mevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction. By this... | |
 | English literature - 1915 - 470 pages
...and liberties from a long line of ancestors. . . . 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.' ' Canonised forefathers,' whether in the invisible register of family tradition or in the formal calendars... | |
 | Nathaniel Micklem, Herbert Morgan - Christian sociology - 1921 - 300 pages
...should be regarded in the light of an inheritance. " 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. . , . By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect.... | |
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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... 
