| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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