 | Edmund Burke - 1955 - 384 pagina’s
...deliverer, the metaphysick knight of the sorrowful countenance. When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work; and this, for a...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publickly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they... | |
 | William Murison - 1926 - 452 pagina’s
...her beauty and her glory ! MACAULAY, Essay on Milton. 22. When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work ; and this, for a...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they... | |
 | Edgar Eugene Robinson - 1934 - 96 pagina’s
...famous essay on the French Revolution suggested my own line of thought for this occasion. Said he, The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke loose;...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 2002 - 350 pagina’s
...principle at work; and this, for a while, is all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the lixed air is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they... | |
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When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work ; and this, for a while, is, all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first effervescence... 
