| 1905 - 1004 strani
...remember Sir Robert Peel's words a dozen years before the first Reform Bill: "The tone of England— of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion.'" If this was a true story in 1820 are we so much lower to-day? And before being too sharp upon our democracy... | |
| Henry Allon - 1885 - 530 strani
...themselves. Writing to Mr. Croker so early as 1820, he says — Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase — than the policy of the Government... | |
| John Wilson Croker - 1884 - 460 strani
...Mr. Peel to Mr. Croker. Extract. Bognor, March 23rd. Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase — than the policy of the Government... | |
| 1884 - 876 strani
...and goes on to say : — " BOONOB, March 23rl. " Do not you think that the tone of England — oit that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase — than the policy of the Government?... | |
| John Wilson Croker - 1885 - 682 strani
...Mr. Peel to Mr. Croker. Extract. Bognor, March 23rd. Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase— than the policy of the Government... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 strani
...policy. " Do not you think," he writes to Croker on March the 3rd, 1820, " that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice',...newspaper paragraphs which is called public opinion — is more Liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than the policy of the Government ?... | |
| John Wilson Croker - 1885 - 490 strani
...Mr. Fed to Mr. Crok.tr. Extract. Bognor, March 23nL Do not you think that the tone of England—of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion—is more liberal—to use an odious but intelligible phrase—than the policy of the Government... | |
| Francis Charles Montague - 1888 - 260 strani
...admits us to some knowledge of his political meditations. Do you not think that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but... | |
| Francis Charles Montague - 1889 - 256 strani
...admits us to some knowledge of his political meditations. Do you not think that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but... | |
| American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1890 - 788 strani
...not incapable of popular sympathies, described " public opinion " (in a letter written in 1820) as "that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs." In the same generation Hegel said : "In public opinion are contained all sorts of falsehood and / truth."... | |
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