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... Outlines of the History of the English Language - Page 162by George Lillie Craik - 1851Full view - About this book
| British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...fortify the fallible and feeble contrivances of our reason, we have derived several other, and those no small benefits, from considering our liberties...descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native diguity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who... | |
| Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...considering our liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself...is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a honorable descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...considering our liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized ro/ uíia яепсЛил. They have a power given...machines as may be fitted for further subversion prevenía that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...considering our liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself...idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of hahitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing... | |
| Leonard Withington - American essays - 1836 - 260 pages
...schoolmasters, and good clergymen. THE PURITAN No. 21. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers the spirit of freedom, leading in itself...misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. Burke. SOMEWHERE in the writings of Montesquieu, it is laid down as a fundamental law of historical... | |
| Leonard] [Withington - 1836 - 256 pages
...schoolmasters, and good clergymen. THE PURITAN. No. 21. 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 awfiri gravity. Burke. SOMEWHERE in the writings of Montesquieu, it is laid down as a fundamental law... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1847 - 584 pages
...combined and mutually reflected charities our states, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. . . . Always acting as if in the presence of canonised forefathers,...misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. . . . Those opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in our old... | |
| 1847 - 566 pages
...combined and mutually reflected charities our states, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. . . . Always acting as if in the presence of canonised forefathers,...misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. . . . Those opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in our old... | |
| Douglas Jerrold's - 1847 - 586 pages
...combined and mutually reflected charities our states, our 'hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. . . . Always acting as if in the presence of canonised forefathers,...misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. . . . Those opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in our old... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...liberties in the light of an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forelathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule...awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires i» with a sense of habitual, native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably... | |
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