If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free • nations cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unable or unwilling to admit their dependencies to share their own constitution, the constitution itself will fall in... Annual Register - Page 332edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
| James Anthony Froude - 1879 - 646 pages
...the same course to the same end. If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free • nations cannot govern subject provinces....fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties. We talk often foolishly of the necessities of things, and we blame circumstances for the consequences... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1880 - 692 pages
...wages perpetually against democracy or despotism. There is another note of warning which, as Mr. Froude clearly shows, is sounded by the history of Rome,...his funeral oration on the man to whom through life he had acted either hostilely or disingenuously. He runs rapidly through the course of Roman political... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1880 - 592 pages
...the same course to the same end. If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties. We. talk often foolishly of the necessities of things, and we blame circumstances for the consequences... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1880 - 712 pages
...wages perpetually against democracy or despotism. There is another note of warning which, as Mr. Froude clearly shows, is sounded by the history of Rome,...to share their own constitution, the constitution it self will fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." In tracing his hero's life, Mr.... | |
| William Dillon - 1882 - 278 pages
...Take, for example, the following: " If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties. "J * " Short Studies" &c., vol. ip 12. t Id., p. 12. I will ask the reader to observe for a moment... | |
| Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 480 pages
...cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unable or unwilling to admit their dependencies to 20 share their own constitution, the constitution itself...fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties. We talk often foolishly of the necessities of things, and we blame circumstances for the consequences... | |
| South Carolina Bar Association - 1886 - 742 pages
...it."* The historian, Froude, said : ''If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....constitution, the constitution itself will fall in pieces through mere incompetence for its duties." Or, as Lincoln more briefly taught : "Those who deny freedom... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1886 - 608 pages
...the same course to the same end. If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unable or unwilling to A admit their dependencies to share their constitution, the constitution itself will fall in pieces... | |
| 1889 - 852 pages
...teaches, it is this — that free nations cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unwilling or unable to admit their dependencies to share their own constitution,...pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." In this Mr. Froude only echoes the judgment of all historical scholars, and especially so of those scholars... | |
| 1903 - 696 pages
...to extend her privileges. . . . If there is one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this : that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." Of the disintegrating character of that period of Roman history that witnessed the passing of the old... | |
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