 The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such,...  Burke, Select Works - Página 182de Edmund Burke - 1883Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
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...them is not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege." "In such a people," he concluded, "the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible."25 Because the prevalence of slave ownership distinguished the American colonies from the... | |
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