 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
 | Robert Devigne - Political Science - 1996 - 292 pages
...liberty from degenerating into unbridled license. "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."4 The English statesman preserved justice, Disraeli concurred, by doing without abstract political... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...for every thing valuable must be the 38 Page 49. 'Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself...those who are the first acquirers of any distinction!' 43 fruit of laborious exertions, to attain knowledge and virtue, in order to merit the affection of... | |
 | Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross - Philosophy - 1996 - 356 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...distinction. By this means our liberty becomes a noble 195 and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and its ensigns armorial. It has its gallery of... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - History - 1997 - 476 pages
...considering our liberties in the light of an inheritance.32 Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself...tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent33 inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips - History - 2000 - 390 pages
...gave the present generation of Englishmen a special duty in relation to their inherited institutions. "This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity," Burke wrote. "By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic... | |
 | Clara Tuite - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 272 pages
...an inheritance. Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a...any distinction. By this means our liberty becomes an imposing freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating... | |
 | Jon Mee - History - 2005 - 342 pages
...which can further regulate his or her speculations: '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.'19 Manners are bound up with tradition for Burke in a way they are not for Shaftesbury or... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 2005 - 848 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...inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the fir.pt' acquirers of any distinction. By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries... | |
 | Matthew S. Buckley - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 222 pages
...benefits as well. "Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom ... is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a...those who are the first acquirers of any distinction." Burke's language is familiar: "upstart insolence" here appears very like Sheridan's plague of noncourtly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 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...sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that ups:art insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of... | |
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