 | 1840 - 974 pages
...those who look on freedom as a holy thing, and who hate not only the despot, but despotism. For myself, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me ; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1840 - 546 pages
...those who look on freedom as a holy thing, and who hate not only the despot, but despotism. For myself, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me ; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held... | |
 | 1840 - 598 pages
...And he finishes this division of his argument with the following pithy sentence : — " For myself, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me ; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 588 pages
...number." And he finishes this division of his argument with the following pithy sentence:— " For myself, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1841 - 586 pages
...and on Galilee's lone shore did Jesus commune face to face with the Great Spirit of Spirits. s. DR WHEN I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...those who look on freedom as a holy thing, and who hate not only the despot, but despotism. For myself, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me ; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1862 - 526 pages
...on freedom of thought as a holy thing, and who hate not only the despot, but despotism. For myself, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me ; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke because it is held... | |
 | Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pages
...those who look on freedom as a holy thing, and who hate not only the despot, but despotism. For myself, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me ; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1866 - 712 pages
...Tocqueville, "is an excited, untaught public sentiment; and •we should hate not only despots, but despotism. When I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care not to know who oppresses me; the yoke is not the easier, because it is held out to me by a million... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Teaching - 1868 - 294 pages
...Toi-queville, "is an excited, untaught public sentiment; and we should hate not only despots, but despotism. When I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care not to know who oppresses me; the yoke is not the easier, because it is held out to me by a million... | |
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For myself, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me ; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held out to me by the arms of a million of men. 
