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... Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison - Page 62by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 211 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be * Orlando Furioso, Canto 43. free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the... | |
| Criticism - 1848 - 628 pages
...brilliancy leads 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,...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim I If men are to wait for liberty till they have become wise and good in slavery, they... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...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,... | |
| Waddy Thompson - Mexico - 1846 - 336 pages
...conflict, and begin to coalesce ; — at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. " Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If 13* men are to wait for liberty, till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and onler is educed out of the chaos. er about the transactions in his family, flew into...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... | |
| Methodist Church - 1848 - 660 pages
...have become wise and good in slavery. That, to use another figure of the gifted Macauley, " would be worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." But as the man who for the first time trusts himself in the water should be particularly... | |
| Charles Buxton - Philanthropists - 1848 - 652 pages
...DOWN SLAVERY. CHAT. XVI. struggle, was that hope given up ; so plausible does the proposition seem, that " no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom." " Yet this maxim," says a brilliant writer of our day, " is worthy of the fool in the old story, who... | |
| Electronic journals - 1881 - 670 pages
...we are conquered." HP SWIMMING. — Lord Macaulay, in his essay on Milton, has the following : — "Many politicians of our time are in the habit of...freedom ; the maxim is worthy of the fool in the old ttory, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim." What " old story " is alluded... | |
| Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim! If to be free, till they are fit to use their freedom. The 31 men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.... | |
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