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 Edmund Burke - 第 326 頁Edmund Burke 著 - 1839完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 876 頁
...despotic institutions. I may sum up this head of my remarks in the fine language of Mr. Burke — " Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Or, if I may be borne with in borrowing again from a Bard, to whom I am already so much indebted, I... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 804 頁
...despotic institutions. I may sum up this head of my remarks in the fine language of Mr. Burke — " Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Or, if I may be borne with in borrowing again from a Bard, to whom I am already so much indebted, I... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 402 頁
...despotic institutions. I may sum up this head of my remarks in the fine language of Mr. Burke — " Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Or, if I may be borne with in borrowing again from a Bard, to whom I am already so much indebted, I... | |
| William Wisner - 1853 - 258 頁
...nor can we hang twenty thousand anti-renters. Burke, in his graphic language, says, " It is written in the eternal constitution of things, that men of...intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their chains." The celebrated author of the Spirit of Laws, well remarks, " That the man who has no religion... | |
| William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 頁
...order yet 785 2s 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. Was sacred, and was honour' d, loved and wept2" By more than one, themselves conspicuous there. Some... | |
| William Cowper - 1854 - 486 頁
...order yet 785 M 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, Sfc. 69. 0 Ben'et College, Cambridge. Was sacred, and was honour' d, loved... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1855 - 632 頁
...caution ought to have been used in the reduction of the royal power, which alone was capable of biding together the comparatively heterogeneous mass of your...well-poised, free constitution. It did not suit their taste nor their temper. They carved for themselves ; they flew out, murdered, robbed, and rebelled. They... | |
| William Cowper - 1856 - 464 頁
...folly, &<:.: "The sensual and the dark rebel In vain — Slaves by their own compulsion.11 Colfridgs. " It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things,...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." — Burke. m. Oicitaney: Duluess, drowsiness. That it is dangerous sporting with the world, With things... | |
| 1858 - 688 頁
...counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist without a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Burke' s last days were not such as his friends could have wished. Age brought with it many physical... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1859 - 62 頁
...chains upon their own appetites ; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity ; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." 2. But there is a physical view, too, which may serve for the second proposition, to which I referred.... | |
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