 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as 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 of the... | |
 | 1848 - 628 pages
...overlook his profound political philosophy. " Many politicians of our time arc in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people...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 slavery, they... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people...the old story, 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,... | |
 | Waddy Thompson - 1846 - 336 pages
...justice and order is educed out of the chaos. " Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people...go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If 13* men are to wait for liberty, till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...justice and onler is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying lent passion with him, and proceeded to invent stories which might justify its a am fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to... | |
 | George Washington Light - 1847 - 398 pages
...idolatry of the masses 'for a Constitution which they, in too many cases, neither •read nor understand. IF men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may wait forever. — MACAULEY. KEEP AT WORK. Bv GW LIGHT. DOES a mountain on you frown ? Keep at work:... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1848 - 628 pages
...overlook his profound political philosophy. " Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they have become wise and good in slavery, they... | |
 | 1848 - 660 pages
...have become wise and good in slavery. That, to use another figure of the gifted Macauley, " would be worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." But as the man who for the first time trusts himself in the water should be particularly... | |
 | Charles Buxton - 1848 - 652 pages
...DOWN SLAVERY. CHAT. XVI. struggle, was that hope given up ; so plausible does the proposition seem, that " no people ought to be 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... | |
 | 1881 - 670 pages
...his essay on Milton, has the following : — "Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people...freedom ; the maxim is worthy of the fool in the old ttory, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim." What " old story " is alluded... | |
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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... 
