 Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as...  A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ... - Page 4371817Full view - About this book
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...enlightened our spirits, like the influence of heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions degrees above themselves....make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly prising of the truth, unless you first make yourselves, *vho made us so, less the founders of our true... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions degrees ahove themselves. Ye cannot make us now less capahle, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth,...so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liherty. \Vs can grow ignorant again, hrutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; hut you then must... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 492 pages
...enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions, degrees above themselves....less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 484 pages
...enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions, degrees above themselves....less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...enlightened our spirits like the influence of Heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions degrees above themselves....grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us ; but you then -must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...degrees above themselves. Ye cannot " make as now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly *' pursuing the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, " that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders f' of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, " brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...influence of heaven ; this is that which " huLn enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our appre" hensions, degrees above themselves. Ye cannot " make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly ie pursuing the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, " that made us so, less the lovers, less the... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...(.inspirits, like the influence of Heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up onr apprehensions degrees above themselves. Ye cannot...make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly prizing of the truth, unless you first make yourselves, who made us so, less the founders of our true... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...our spirits like the in" fluence of heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised, " enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions, degrees above •' themselves....less capable, less " knowing, less eagerly pursuing the truth, unless ye first " make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less " the founders... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...influence of heaven ; this is that which " hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our ap" prehensions, degrees above themselves. Ye cannot " make us now...less capable, less knowing, less eagerly " pursuing the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, " that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders "... | |
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