 | Steam engineering - 1921 - 884 pages
...located that the char will be passed directly from the ovens to the briqueting machines. No FREEDOM . . It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free ; their passions forge their fetters. — Burke. Measurement of Vacuum Over Working... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - Finance, Public - 1974 - 1574 pages
...power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." The choice before us clearly is between further... | |
 | Employee theft - 1976 - 112 pages
...power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." In my opinion criminals are predators who by their... | |
 | John W. Coffey - Philosophy - 1977 - 226 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."8 "What is to be done?" Morgenthau asks in a pregnant... | |
 | Frederick Dreyer - Biography & Autobiography - 1979 - 104 pages
...upon his appetite. The less he could control himself, the more he had to be controlled by the state. "It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."56 Far from manifesting a spirit of liberty, the... | |
 | Richard Zeckhauser, Derek Leebaert - Political Science - 1983 - 384 pages
...appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. 1t is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." A failure to assert personal responsibility for... | |
 | Clarence J. Karier - Education - 1986 - 492 pages
...most men will remain intemperate, it follows that most men neither deserve nor are capable of freedom. "It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."9 Interest in mankind must begin at the top and... | |
 | Charles E. Curran, Richard A. McCormick - Religion - 1988 - 556 pages
...liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, , , , It is ordained in the Eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free,"i4 Likewise, civil society must respect basic freedoms in man, As the Fathers of Vatican... | |
 | J. David Hoeveler - History - 1991 - 356 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." Quoted in Russell Kirk, ed. , The Portable Conservative... | |
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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... 
