 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 626 pages
...» John Adams to Samuel Adams. New York, Oct. 18, 1790. MS. ; " Bnt, on (In- other hand, the Nubles have been essential parties in the preservation of Liberty, whenever and wherever it has existed. • • « Let us be impartial then, and speak the whole truth. Till we do, we shall never discover... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 596 pages
...Vicc-Presidcnt, and with Adams' wish to impart to * John Adams to Samnel Adams. New York, Oct. 18, 1790. MS. ; " But, on the other hand, the Nobles have been essential...of Liberty, whenever and wherever it has existed. • • • Let us be impartial then, and speak the whole truth. Till we do, wo shall never discover... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 594 pages
...with Adams' wish to impart to » John Adams to Samuel Adams. New York, Oct. 18, 1790. MS. ; " Bat, on the other hand, the Nobles have been essential...of Liberty, whenever and wherever it has existed. » • • Let us be impartial then, and speak the •whole truth. Till wo do, we shall never discover... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...devils."—Adams' Works, vol. 2, p. 469. Again, he makes a comparison between the nobles and the people: " But . on the other hand, the nobles have been essential parties in the preservation of liberty. The people pretended to nothing but to be villains, vassals, and retainers to the Kings or the nobles."—Adams'... | |
 | Correa Moylan Walsh - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 400 pages
...making a common cause with them" (vi. 251), acting as their "able, independent ally" (iv. 463). Thus "the nobles have been essential parties in the preservation...of liberty, whenever and wherever it has existed" (417). Then these, in turn, becoming unchecked, things have reverted to oligarchic despotism. Thu3... | |
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... and so it ever will. But, on the other hand, the nobles have been essential parties in the preservation of liberty, whenever and wherever it has existed. In Europe, they alone have preserved it against kings and people, wherever it has been preserved;... 