 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1843 - Страниц: 396
...must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, remarks that beautiful writer, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free — their passions forge their fetters. Most writers concur in opinion, that the free use of strong drink is incompatible with national freedom... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - Страниц: 854
...they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling...cannot be free ; their passions forge their fetters. — Burke. Naworth Castle, Cumberland _ Statesmen of the Reign of George III 52 The Lost Hunter 56... | |
 | 1848 - Страниц: 658
...doom which they have inflicted upon their oppressors. " It is written," says the philosophic Burke, " in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free." And well has Cowper said — " He is a freeman whom the truth make* free, And all are slaves beside."... | |
 | 1851 - Страниц: 702
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - Страниц: 608
...they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters, themselves. They possessed not long since, what was next to freedom, a mild paternal monarchy. They... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - Страниц: 802
...they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Or, if I may be borne with in borrowing again from a Bard, to whom I am already so much indebted, I... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - Страниц: 402
...they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Or, if I may be borne with in borrowing again from a Bard, to whom I am already so much indebted, I... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - Страниц: 876
...they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Or, if I may be borne with in borrowing again from a Bard, to whom I am already so much indebted, I... | |
 | William Wisner - 1853 - Страниц: 258
...nor can we hang twenty thousand anti-renters. Burke, in his graphic language, says, " It is written in the eternal constitution of things, that men of...intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their chains." The celebrated author of the Spirit of Laws, well remarks, " That the man who has no religion... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - Страниц: 482
...order yet 785 2s The sensual and the dark rebel in vain — Slaves by their own compulsion. Coleridge. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things,...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Was sacred, and was honour' d, loved and wept2" By more than one, themselves conspicuous there. Some... | |
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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... 
