 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...WILL AND APPETITE BE PLACED SOMEWHERE J AND THE" LESS OF IT THERE IS WITHIN, THE MORE THERE MUST BE, WITHOUT. IT IS ORDAINED IN THE ETERNAL CONSTITUTION OF THINGS^ THAT MEN OF INTEMPERATE MINDS CANNOT BE FREE. THEIR PASSIONS FORGE THEIR FETTERS. Mr. Burke having long vie wed with anxiety the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Liberty when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...will and appe'tite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Liberty when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...will and appetite to be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. This sentence the prevalent part of your countrymen... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Liberty when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate... | |
 | James Hardie - Freemasonry - 1818 - 392 pages
...moral chains upon their appetites — in proportion as their love of justice is above their capacity. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be frtef their passions forge their fetters." In every well governed lodge, there will be found,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. MANNERS. But the age of chivalry is gone. That... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...attached to the door of the publisher's office, for the reception oY communications for "The Friend." It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.—Ed. Burke. Deep humility is a strong bulwark;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...thirst 790 28 The sensual and the dark rebel in vain — Slaves by their own compulsion. Coleridge. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Burke. Answer to Objections, §c. 69! 59 Ben'et... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...thirst 790 28 The sensual and the dark rebel in vain — Slaves by their own compulsion. Coleridge. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge tlieir fetters, — Burke. Answer to Objections, £fe. 69. -"... | |
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot... 
