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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... "
Short Selections for Translating English Into French: Including a Few ... - Page 76
by Paul Bercy - 1894 - 137 pages
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...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 selfevident 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...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...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 people ought to be * Orlando FurioBO, Canto 43. free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...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 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...
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The New Englander, Volume 6

Criticism - 1848 - 628 pages
...many to 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 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...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...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 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...
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Recollections of Mexico

Waddy Thompson - Mexico - 1846 - 330 pages
...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 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...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...system of justice and onler is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit into a violent 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...
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Scholarship examinations of 1846/47 (-1853/54).

Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...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 selfevident 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...
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The Christian Observatory, Volume 2

Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Christianity - 1848 - 638 pages
...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 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...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1881 - 670 pages
...Macaulay, in 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 ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom ; the maxim is worthy of the fool in the old ttory, who resolved not to go...
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