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
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 頁
...minds court opinion, And, dead to virtuous feeling, hide their wants lu pompous affectation. Southern. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things,...cannot be free ; their passions forge their fetters. £urte. MIND AND BODY. Animalism is nothing; inventive spiritualism is all. Carlyle. MINDS-Noblest.... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 696 頁
...disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.... Society cannot exist unless a controuling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere,...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. qu'on ne pouvait « traiter avec une nation d'athées1.» Burke disait que la guerre était non entre... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1864 - 588 頁
...limitations of royal power ? Your king is in prison. Why speculate on the measure and standard of liberty FI doubt much, very much indeed, whether France is at...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... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 446 頁
...civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.... Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. 2. " The leading features of this government are the abolition of religion and the abolition of property.... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1866 - 344 頁
...benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face." It has been truly said that "men of intemperate minds cannot be free; their passions forge their fetters " ; but no clank of any chain, whether of avarice or ambition, gave the least harshness to the movement... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 756 頁
...moral 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.... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 頁
...disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. 80 Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon...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.... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 頁
...rightly informed and set straight while they were young and pliable. SPRAT. History of the Koyal Society. without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.* BURKE. FOR freedom still maintain'd alive, Freedom which in no other land can thrive ; Freedom, an... | |
| Massachusetts - 1867 - 1256 頁
...daily instruction of the children in secular knowledge. Edmund Burke hath said : " It is •written in the eternal constitution of things, that men of...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." And our own peerless Webster hath said : " Moral habits cannot be safely trusted on any other foundation... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1867 - 346 頁
...benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face." It has been truly said that "men of intemperate minds cannot be free ; their passions forge their fetIters " ; but no clank of any chain, whether of avarice or ambition, gave the least harshness to... | |
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