The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths, such were our Gothic ancestors, such... Library of Southern Literature: Biography - Pagina 5416geredigeerd door - 1910Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pagina’s
...commend the supcriour morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but so an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all... | |
| William Drayton - 1836 - 324 pagina’s
...commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so:...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those of the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pagina’s
...commend the superiour morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but this hoarding of a royal wilderness, an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all... | |
| Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Samuel Webb - 1838 - 222 pagina’s
...illustrious statesman and orator of the British House of Commons has declared, that the people of -the South are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those of the North; as in such a people the haughtiness of domination, combined with the spirit of freedom,... | |
| George Croly - 1840 - 334 pagina’s
...commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and the people of the Southern Colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit,... | |
| George Croly - 1840 - 612 pagina’s
...commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and the people of the Southern Colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit,... | |
| George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 pagina’s
...commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ;...attached to liberty than those to the northward." The last cause of the disobedient spirit in the colonies was their distance from the mother country.... | |
| Henry Bidleman Bascom - 1845 - 384 pagina’s
...Burke to a similar charge in the British Parliament : "the people of the Southern colonies of America, are much more strongly, and with a higher and more...attached to liberty, than those to the Northward." We are tempted again to ask, why the South is denounced with such unsparing bitterness for doing only... | |
| George Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott - 1846 - 606 pagina’s
...Edmund Burke,in a speech at the commencement of the war, that the people of the southern colonies were much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn...attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such will all masters of slaves be, who are not slaves themselves.' These sentiments of a prime agent of... | |
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