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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... "
Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 80
1841
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Issue 1

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 601 pages
...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...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Part 1

John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...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...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First ...

John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...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 atten141 against the inordinate ambition and subtle practices of Courtiers...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 pages
...Ecclesiastical Polity contains no less truth and eloquence: " 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." This subject might be elucidated by various instances, particularly...
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The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ...

William Oldys, John Malham - 1808 - 594 pages
...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...
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The Port Folio, Volume 3

1809 - 570 pages
...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 be, shall never want attentive or favourable hearers; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment...
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Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ...

Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...increased, but the total bulk of trading rather decreased. IBID. 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 whereuuto every kind of regimen...
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An Attempt to Ascertain the Author of the Letters Published Under the ...

John Brickdale Blakeway - 1813 - 92 pages
...disgraceful popularity. He knew, better than any man, that " he who 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."* Nothing is too trifling to elude his notice, or too harmless to...
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The Orthodox journal and Catholic monthly intelligencer [ed. by W ..., Volume 8

William Eusebius Andrews - 1820 - 502 pages
...habeant, (Jac. II. Ann. c. 17.) And Hooker truly says, " 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." That there has been and is a great inclination to tumult. &c....
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The Works of Francis Gregor, of Trewarthennick, Esq

Francis Gregor - 1816 - 332 pages
...for fair play. The passage from Hooker is as follows ." 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...
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