 | 1858 - 688 pages
...knaves. Society cannot exist without a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Burke' s last days were not such as his friends could have wished. Age brought with it many physical... | |
 | 1858 - 1094 pages
...upon the will and appetites is placed somewhere ; and the less of it there is within, the more of it there must be without. It is ordained, in the eternal...constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Passions forge their fetters." A free government and its institutions can flourish... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1859 - 62 pages
...knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." 2. But there is a physical view, too, which may serve for the second proposition, to which I referred.... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...minds court opinion, And, dead to virtuous feeling, hide their wants lu pompous affectation. Southern. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things,...cannot be free ; their passions forge their fetters. £urte. MIND AND BODY. Animalism is nothing; inventive spiritualism is all. Carlyle. MINDS-Noblest.... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 696 pages
...appetites.... Society cannot exist unless a controuling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. qu'on ne pouvait « traiter avec une nation d'athées1.» Burke disait que la guerre était non entre... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1866 - 494 pages
...knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere ; and the less of it there is within, the more there...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. This sentence the prevalent part of your countrymen execute on themselves. They possessed not long... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 442 pages
...appetites.... Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there...that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passion* forge their fetters. 2. " The leading features of this government are the abolition of religion... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1866 - 344 pages
...benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face." It has been truly said that "men of intemperate minds cannot be free; their passions forge their fetters " ; but no clank of any chain, whether of avarice or ambition, gave the least harshness to the movement... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1867 - 1256 pages
...daily instruction of the children in secular knowledge. Edmund Burke hath said : " It is •written in the eternal constitution of things, that men of...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." And our own peerless Webster hath said : " Moral habits cannot be safely trusted on any other foundation... | |
 | 1867 - 844 pages
...Deity." Society cannot exist unless a oontroling power npon the will and appetite is placed somewhere ; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be of it without. It is ordained, in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds... | |
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot... 
