Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding... The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Strana 497podľa Edmund Burke - 1855Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - Počet stránok 488
...place, ' SOCIETY CANNOT EXIST UNLESS ACONTROULING POWER UPON WILL AND APPETITE BE PLACED SOMEWHERE J AND THE" LESS OF IT THERE IS WITHIN, THE MORE THERE...CANNOT BE FREE. THEIR PASSIONS FORGE THEIR FETTERS. Mr. Burke having long vie wed with anxiety the new philosophy become fashionable in France, bestowed... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - Počet stránok 228
...presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 115 In preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Liberty when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate people before they declare themselves, will observe... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - Počet stránok 244
...presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 115 in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Liberty when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate people before they declare themselves, will observe... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1811 - Počet stránok 252
...freedom ; and every government is called tyranny and usurpation which is not formed on their fancies. Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Liberty when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate people before they declare themselves, will observe... | |
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - Počet stránok 240
...presumption ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, 175 in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Liberty when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate people before they declare themselves, will observe... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1828 - Počet stránok 182
...disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites ; in proportion as their love to justice is abo«e their rapacity ; in proportion as their soundness...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. MANNERS. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded... | |
| Ralph Randolph Gurley - 1835 - Počet stránok 576
...When qualified therefor, there should be no hesitation in conferring it upon them. "It is advanced in the eternal constitution of things, that men of...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." • Dr. Beecher. and ascertain whether suitable Territory could be purchased for the proposed Colony.... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - Počet stránok 404
...thirst 790 28 The sensual and the dark rebel in vain — Slaves by their own compulsion. Coleridge. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things,...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Burke. Answer to Objections, §c. 69! 59 Ben'et College, Cambridge. '•>" Praised, wejit, and... | |
| 1837 - Počet stránok 538
...exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less there ia within, the more there must be without. It is ordained...cannot be free — their passions forge their fetters. — • BURKE. 1837.] THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE. THE NIGHT-BLOWING CEREUS, (Cactus grandiflora.) .......... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1839 - Počet stránok 554
...caution ought to have been used in the reduction of the royal power, which alone was capable of holding together the comparatively heterogeneous mass of your...well-poised free constitution. It did not suit their taste or their temper. They carved for themselves ; they flew out, murdered, robbed, and rebelled. They have... | |
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