 | 1835 - 932 pages
...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 indeed wait for ever. Therefore it is that we decidedly approve of the conduct of Milton and the other wise and good men... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...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 indeed wait forever. Therefore it is that we decidedly approve of the conduct of Milton and the other wise and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever. Therefore it is that we decidedly approve of the conduct of Milton and the other wise and... | |
 | Waddy Thompson - Mexico - 1846 - 336 pages
...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 indeed wait for ever." It is entirely true that it is not by keeping men in dark rooms that they are taught to discriminate... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of forever. Therefore it is that we decidedly approve of the conduct of Milton and the other wise and... | |
 | George Washington Light - Conduct of life - 1847 - 398 pages
...the masses 'for a Constitution which they, in too many cases, neither •read nor understand. IF men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may wait forever. — MACAULEY. KEEP AT WORK. Bv GW LIGHT. DOES a mountain on you frown ? Keep at work:... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...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 indeed wait for ever." POETRY. But not their joys alone thus coarsely flow ; Their morals, like their pleasures, are but low... | |
 | Charles Buxton - Philanthropists - 1848 - 652 pages
...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 indeed wait for ever ! " * What, then, was to be done ? should things be left as they were ? To Mr. Buxton the answer was... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Christianity - 1848 - 638 pages
...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 indeed wait forever." PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY. — Professor Agassiz and Dr. AA Gould have prepared this book, which... | |
 | Charles Buxton - Enslaved persons - 1849 - 542 pages
...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 indeed wait for ever!"f What, then, was to be done? should things be left as they were? To Mr. Buxton the answer was... | |
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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. 
