 Many politicians of 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 is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 13de Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1835 - 932 páginas
...will soon be able to bear il. In a few years men learn to reason. The extreme violence of opinions subsides. Hostile theories correct each other. The...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 story, who resolved not to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 páginas
...will soon be able to bear it. In a few years men learn to reason. The extreme violence' of opinions subsides. Hostile theories correct each other. The...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be * Orlando Furioso, Canto 43. free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim ia worthy of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 páginas
...will soon be able to bear it. In a few years men learn to reason. The extreme violence of opinions subsides. Hostile theories correct each other. The...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 story, who resolved not to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 páginas
...leaves his cell, he cannot bear the light of day ; — he is unable to discriminate colors or recognize faces. But the remedy is not to remand him into his...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 story, who resolved not to... | |
 | Waddy Thompson - 1846 - 332 páginas
...correct each other ; the scattered elements of truth cease to conflict, and begin to coalesce ; — at length a system of justice and order is educed...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 story > who resolved not to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...elements of truth cease to conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and onler out knowing any thing whatever about the transactions...proceeded to invent stories which might justify its ange fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 páginas
...will soon be able to bear it . In a few years men learn to reason. The extreme violence of opinions subsides. Hostile theories correct each other. The...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 story, who resolved not to... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1848 - 638 páginas
...will soon be able to bear it. In a few years men learn to reason. The extreme violence of opinions subsides. Hostile theories correct each other. The...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 story, who resolved not to... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1848 - 628 páginas
...the words of a writer, whose brilliancy leads many to overlook his profound political philosophy. " Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...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 story, who resolved not to... | |
 | 1881 - 670 páginas
...we are conquered." HP SWIMMING. — Lord Macaulay, in his essay on Milton, has the following : — "Many politicians of our time are in the habit of...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... | |
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