Political Essays, with Sketches of Public CharactersWilliam Hone, 1819 - 439 Seiten |
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... weak , The vacillating , inconsistent good . " A Reformer is not a gregarious animal . Specula- tive opinion leads men different ways , each according to his particular fancy - it is prejudice or interest xviii PREFACE .
... weak , The vacillating , inconsistent good . " A Reformer is not a gregarious animal . Specula- tive opinion leads men different ways , each according to his particular fancy - it is prejudice or interest xviii PREFACE .
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... opinion on any question is governed by what others say of it , and by what he can get by it . The only instance of successful resistance in the House of Commons to Ministers for many years was in the case of the Income - Tax ; which ...
... opinion on any question is governed by what others say of it , and by what he can get by it . The only instance of successful resistance in the House of Commons to Ministers for many years was in the case of the Income - Tax ; which ...
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... opinions on this subject ; and the more they differ , the less will they be inclined to give way or compromise the matter . With each of these , his self - opinion is the first thing to be attended to ; his understanding must be ...
... opinions on this subject ; and the more they differ , the less will they be inclined to give way or compromise the matter . With each of these , his self - opinion is the first thing to be attended to ; his understanding must be ...
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... opinion of the world , to bow the knee to Baal , than to seek for obscure and obnoxious truth ! How strong are the ties that bind men together for their own advantage , compared with those that bind them to the good of their country or ...
... opinion of the world , to bow the knee to Baal , than to seek for obscure and obnoxious truth ! How strong are the ties that bind men together for their own advantage , compared with those that bind them to the good of their country or ...
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... opinion of the world , which will not let him express his op- position to those measures with warmth and effect . His politics are a strange mixture of cross - purposes . He is wedded to forms and appearances , impeded by every petty ...
... opinion of the world , which will not let him express his op- position to those measures with warmth and effect . His politics are a strange mixture of cross - purposes . He is wedded to forms and appearances , impeded by every petty ...
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abuse admiration Allies answer better Bonaparte Bourbons Burke cause character Coleridge Commission of Government common consequences contempt Courier court divine right doctrine Duke of Wellington earth enemy equally evil favour feelings force Fouché France French Revolution genius give hands hates heart honour human imagination interest Jacobin John Ball justice King knaves labour Legitimacy liberty live Lord Castlereagh Lord William Bentinck Louis XVIII Malthus Malthus's mankind mind moral nation nature never object opinion Paris passions patriotism peace persons philosopher poet poetry political poor population prejudices present pretensions Prince principle Quarterly Review question reason reform Rehoboam reign religion renegado Robert Southey rotten boroughs sense sentiments shew slaves Southey Southey's spirit suppose Talleyrand taxes thing thought throne tion true truth understanding vanity Vetus vice and misery virtue Wat Tyler whole words wretched write
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Seite 142 - And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Seite 130 - And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke : my father hath chastised you with whips, but I « will chastise you with scorpions.
Seite 144 - What is he, whose grief Bears such an emphasis ? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers ? this is I, Hamlet the Dane.
Seite xxxv - Chaste Matrons praise her, and grave Bishops bless: In golden Chains the willing World she draws, And hers the Gospel is, and hers the Laws: Mounts the Tribunal, lifts her scarlet head, And sees pale Virtue carted in her stead!
Seite 130 - So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David ? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse : to your tents, O Israel : now see to thine own house, David.
Seite 138 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war — upon church and state — not their alliance, but their separation — on the spirit of the world, and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Seite 255 - And all our dainty terms for fratricide; Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form! As if the soldier died without a wound; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gored without a pang...
Seite 138 - And for myself, I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and Philosophy had met together. Truth and Genius had embraced, under the eye and with the sanction of Religion.
Seite 372 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 276 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.