 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1848 - Страниц: 638
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...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, they may... | |
 | 1848 - Страниц: 660
...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...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 careful of... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - Страниц: 628
...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, they may... | |
 | Charles Buxton - 1848 - Страниц: 652
...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 - Страниц: 670
...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...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... | |
 | 1851 - Страниц: 626
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. " Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...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, they may... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - Страниц: 396
...of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim! If to be free, till they are fit to use their freedom. The 31 men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - Страниц: 764
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...proposition, that no people ought to be free till they am u' to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go... | |
 | 1852 - Страниц: 780
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. ed by arc fi< to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - Страниц: 570
...and begiti to coalesce ; and]_atLJeitgth1 a system of 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 Pcople ought to be frce till they are fit to use their frcedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in... | |
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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. 
