 | Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 trang
...Perhaps experience, improving on experience, may in time effect it. Ditto, p. 2i5. To hinder infurrection by driving away the people, and to govern peaceably,...is an expedient that argues no great profundity of politics. To foften the obdurate, to convince the miftaken, to mollify the refentful, are worthy of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 550 trang
...their dernands, and kept quiet by penfions proportionate to their lofs'. » To hinder infnrredlion by driving away the people, and to govern peaceably,...miftaken, to mollify the refentful, are worthy of a ftattfrnanj but it affords a legiflator little felfapplaufe to confider, that where there was formerly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 trang
...reftrained in their demands, and kept quiet by penfions proportionate to their lofs. To hinder infurrection by driving away the people, and to govern peaceably,...politicks. To foften the obdurate, to convince the mirtakcn, to mollify the refentful, are worthy of a ftattfman ; but it affords a legiflator little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 258 trang
...people, and to govern peaceably, .by .having no fubjectsj.is an expedient that argues no great profuadity of politicks. . To foften the obdurate, to convince the miftaken,. to .mollify the refentful, arc ' worthy of a ftatefman ; but it affords a legiflator Httle felf.applaufe to confider, that where... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 trang
...restrained in their demands, and kept quiet by pensions proportionate to their loss. To hinder insurrection by driving away the people, and to govern peaceably, by having no subjects, is an expedient that argues no great profundity of politicks. To soften the obdurate, to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 trang
...time,reftrained in their demands, and kept quiet by penfions proportionate to their lofs. To hinder infurrection by driving away the people, and to govern peaceably,...felf-applaufe to confider, that where there was formerly an infurrection, there is now a wildernefs. It has been a quefticn often agitated, without folution, why... | |
 | William Wenman Seward - 1804 - 556 trang
...govern peaceably by having no fubjefts, is an expedient that argues no great profundity in politics : to foften the obdurate, to convince the miftaken,...but it affords a legiflator little felf-applaufe to coniider that where there was formerly an imurre&ion there is now a wildernefs." " Contrary to the... | |
 | 1819 - 550 trang
...judicature. Perhaps experience, improving on experience, may in time effect it. To hinder insurrection by driving away the people, and to govern peaceably, by having no subjects, is an expedient that argues no great profundity of politics. LETTER TO MR. JAMES HOGG. [From... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 trang
...time.reftrained in their demands, and kept quiet by penfions proportionate to their lofs. To hinder infurre&ion by driving away the people, and to govern peaceably, by having no fubje&s, is an expedient that argues no great profundity of politicks. To foften the obdurate, to convince... | |
 | William Belsham - 1802 - 592 trang
...would never have exifled. — " To hinder infurrection," fays a great and juftly-celebrated writer, " by driving away the people, and to govern peaceably...fubjects, is an expedient that argues no great profundity in politics : to foften the obdurate, to convince the miftaken, to mollify the refentful, arc worthy... | |
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To soften the obdurate, to convince the mistaken, to mollify the resentful, are worthy of a statesman ; but it affords a legislator little self-applause to consider, that where there was formerly an insurrection, there is now a... 
