 | David Hume - 1859 - 242 pages
...freedom. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject...toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitnde, liberty looks amongst them like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean... | |
 | E. N. Elliott - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1860 - 1310 pages
...blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery t with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks,...noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the peculiar morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I can not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...privilege. Not feeling there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, Sir, to commend the superior... | |
 | Henry May - Maryland - 1863 - 76 pages
...privilege. Not seeing there that freedom as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject...has at least as much pride as virtue in it; but I cannot alter the nature of the man. The fact is so; and theae people of the southern colonies are much... | |
 | Reverdy Johnson - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1863 - 764 pages
...privilege. Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal....has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - History - 1867 - 650 pages
...privilege. Not seeing, then, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject...has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the Southern colonies are much... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject...with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1872 - 438 pages
...with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks amongst them like something that is more noble and liberal....has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so, and these people of the southern colonies are much... | |
 | Joseph Hodgson - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 560 pages
...seeing there that freedom, " as in countries where it is a 'common blessing, and as "Jbroad and genial as the air, may be united with much " abject toil,...and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to " commend the peculiar morality of this sentiment, which •" has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I... | |
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... them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people... 
