 | 1845 - 778 pages
...liberty looks among them like something lhat is more noble and liberal. * * Such were all the ancient commonwealths — such were our Gothic ancestors —...masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves." These remarks of Burke account for Southern influence more correctly than the logic of John Quincey... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient orporated and identified the estate of the church with the mass of comhines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. Permit me, Sir, to add... | |
 | 1835 - 804 pages
...looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal. " + * Such were all the ancient Commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such, in our days, were the Poles ; and st«A will be all masters oj simes who are not slaves themsilres. In such a people, the haughtiness... | |
 | William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 318 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those of the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such,...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." To him who contemplates the "high and haughty" virtues of the south, and then recurs to the treachery... | |
 | Abolitionists - 1836 - 444 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those of the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such,...the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves toho are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit... | |
 | William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 324 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those of the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such,...the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves ivho are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothick h pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse; and as they found that beat, they •:, Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards... | |
 | George Croly - Politicians - 1840 - 334 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to Liberty, than those to the Northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." His observation on the general taste for legal studies which predominated in America is expressive.... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to Liberty, than those to the Northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." His observation on the general taste for legal studies which predominated in America is expressive.... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 570 pages
...strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the Northward." '-In such a people, the haughtiness of domination...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." Mr. Calhoun says : "The white, or European race, has not degenerated. It has kept pace with its brethren... | |
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The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such... 
