 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 601 trang
...justice, and the best rulers seldom find the freest passage. He that goes about to persuade a multitude they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall sooner want argument than attenagainst the inordinate ambition and subtle practices of Courtiers and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 trang
...justice, and the best rulers seldom find the freest passage. He that goes about to persuade a multitude they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall sooner want argument than attenagainst the inordinate ambition and subtle prac-r tices of Courtiers... | |
 | 1810 - 566 trang
...invective, may often supply the place of sober •reason. For (in the words of the judicious Hooker) " he that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to he, shall never want attentive or favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 trang
...c. 17.) The first sentence of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity contains no less truth and eloquence: "He " that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so 4* well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive " and favourable hearers." This subject... | |
 | 1808 - 588 trang
...favour and good word of the common people; and what readier way .to obtain it, than by persuading them that they are not so well governed as they ought to be? Some things will happen amiss, let men do what they can; and thç common people who see the immediate... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - 1808 - 594 trang
...favour and good word of the common people ; and what readier way to obtain it, than by persuading them that they are not so well governed as they ought to be? Some things will happen amiss, let men do what they can ; and the common people who see the immediate... | |
 | 1809 - 570 trang
...invective, may often supply the place of sober reason. For (in the words of the judicious Hooker) " he that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they...governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive or favourable hearers; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject;... | |
 | 1823 - 946 trang
...Parliament. HOOKER commences his admirable work on Ecclesiastical Polity with this observation ; " He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they...shall never want attentive and favourable hearers." This remark, at once eloquent and just, indicates a deep insight into the principles of human nature.... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 trang
...shire ; the particular rates being increased, but the total bulk of trading rather decreased. IBID. HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they...favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereuuto every kind of regimen is subject ; but the secret lets and difficulties, which, in public... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1820 - 502 trang
...exitiosi, nikilspei, nisi per discor" dias habeant, (Jac. II. Ann. c. 17.) And Hooker truly says, " He " that goeth about to persuade a " multitude, that...shall never want attentive and " favourable hearers." That there has been and is a great inclination to tumult. &c. no person will or can deny, and if the... | |
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HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret... 
