 | 1835 - 932 páginas
...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...the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 páginas
...a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be * Orlando FurioBO, Canto 43. free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy...the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 páginas
...ought to be * Orlando Furioso, Canto 43. free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim ia worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery,... | |
 | 1848 - 628 páginas
...the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy...the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim I If men are to wait for liberty till they have become wise and good in... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 páginas
...the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy...who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may... | |
 | Waddy Thompson - 1846 - 330 páginas
...the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy...the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty, till they become wise and good in slavery,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they am S` Lm] }6 w + $ c E 2 Ȝ` &oF5 x KM j · 7 lF 5 {, ZLs)H y` .M :7z y t!nf @ till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery,... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 páginas
...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...the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1848 - 638 páginas
...the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy...the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - 628 páginas
...free till they are fit to use their freedom." " Yet this maxim," says a brilliant writer of our day, " is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery,... | |
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Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident 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... 
