 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1848 - 628 páginas
...our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they have become wise and good in slavery, they... | |
 | 1848 - 660 páginas
...have become wise and good in slavery. That, to use another figure of the gifted Macauley, " would be worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." But as the man who for the first time trusts himself in the water should be particularly... | |
 | 1881 - 670 páginas
...our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom ; the maxim is worthy of the fool in the old ttory, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim." What " old story " is alluded... | |
 | 1851 - 626 páginas
...our time are in the habit of laying it down as a selfevident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim...become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever." POETRY. But not their joys alone thus coarsely flow ; Their morals, like their pleasures,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 páginas
...and begin to coalesce ; and at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. 30 maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim! If to be free, till they are fit to use their freedom. The 31 men are to wait for... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they am u' to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool...and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever. \s VlTherefore it is that we decidedly approve of the conduct of Milton and the other wise and good... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 páginas
...our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no People ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 páginas
...our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no People ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 páginas
...a self-evident proposition, that no Pcople ought to be frce till they are fit to use their frcedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may,... | |
 | EDMUND FLAGG - 1853 - 466 páginas
...Macauley, "are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the story, who resolved not to go into tho water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to \vuit for liberty... | |
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Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. 
