 | David Hume - 1810 - 540 pages
...shook off the base servitude to arbitrary will and authority under which she had so long laboured. The free constitutions then established, however impaired...air of independence and legal administration, which distiwguish the European nations; and if that part of the globe. maintain sentiments of liberty, honour,... | |
 | David Hume - 1819 - 432 pages
...shook off the base servitude to arbitrary will and authority, under which she had so long laboured. The free constitutions then established, however impaired...encroachments of succeeding princes, still preserve an air nf independence and legal administration, which distinguish the European nations ; and if that part... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett - 1825 - 480 pages
...shook off the base servitude to arbitrary will and authority under which she had so long laboured. The free constitutions then established, however impaired...by the encroachments of succeeding princes, still preserved an air of independence and legal administration, which distinguished the European nations... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1830 - 414 pages
..." At the Teutonic invasion," says he, " Europe, as from a new epoch, rekindled her ancient spirit ; and if that part of the globe maintain sentiments of liberty, honour, equity,and valour, superior to the rest of mankind, it owes these advantages chiefly to the seeds implanted... | |
 | Wolfgang Menzel - 1848 - 574 pages
...their art, knew not how to obtain." Hume, the great English historian, says, " If our part of the world maintain sentiments of liberty, honour, equity, and...superior to the rest of mankind, it owes these advantages to the seeds implanted by those generous barbarians." "Liberty," observed Montesquieu, " that lovely... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1850 - 240 pages
...shook off the base servitude to arbitrary will and authority under which she had so long laboured. The free constitutions then established, however impaired...liberty, honour, equity, and valour, superior to the vest of mankind, it owes these advantages cliiefly to the seeds implanted by those generous barbarians.... | |
 | David Hume - 1851 - 532 pages
...and shook off the base servitude to arbitrary will and authority under which she had so long labored. The free constitutions then established, however impaired...air of independence and legal administration, which distinguished the European nations ; and if that part of the globe maintain sentiments of liberty,... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - 1852 - 224 pages
...and shook off the base servitude to arbitrary will and authority under which she had so long labored. The free constitutions then established, however impaired...air of independence and legal administration, which distinguished the European nations; and if that part of the globe maintain sentiments * Hale says:... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 556 pages
...and shook off the base servitude to arbitrary will and authority under which she had so long labored. The free constitutions then established, however impaired...part of the globe maintain sentiments of liberty, honor, equity, and valor, superior to the rest of mankind, it owes these advantages chiefly to the... | |
 | David Hume - 1856 - 536 pages
...and shook off the base servitude to arbitrary will and authority under which she had so long labored. The free constitutions then established, however impaired...air of independence and legal administration, which distinguished the European nations ; and if that part of the globe maintain sentiments of liberty,... | |
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... genius of men, and destroyed every noble principle of science and virtue, was unable to resist the vigorous efforts of a free people ; and Europe, as from a new epoch, rekindled her ancient spirit, and shook off the base servitude to arbitrary will... 
