 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 strani
...some use of the following judicious observation, which contains an eternal truth, peculiarlyapplicable to our own times : " Envy and detraction, like two...than attenagainst the inordinate ambition and subtle prac-r tices of Courtiers and Politicians ; so that even supposing that his book had fallen into our... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 strani
...peculiarly applicable to our own times : ' " Envy and detraction, like two venomous serpents, lurk alwaics in the paths of justice, and the best rulers seldom...persuade a multitude they are not so well governed at they ought to be, shall sooner want argument than atten141 against the inordinate ambition and subtle... | |
 | 1809 - 570 strani
...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... | |
 | 1823 - 946 strani
...on Ecclesiastical Polity with this observation ; " 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 remark, at once eloquent and just, indicates a deep... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 strani
...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... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1820 - 502 strani
...(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.... | |
 | Francis Gregor - 1816 - 332 strani
...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... | |
 | 1858 - 862 strani
...formulas," " quackery," and " beadledom." It is not a philosophy of very difficult growth. "He that goeth about to persuade a multitude they are not so well governed as they ought to be," saith Hooker, " shall never lack ready and attentive hearers." So also he that runs atilt against established... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1831 - 952 strani
...maxim will remain a durable monument of his discernment and their propensities : ' That those who go about to persuade a multitude they are not so well governed as they ought to be, will never want attentive and credulous hearers.' How far I have acted up in reality to the principles... | |
 | 1819 - 66 strani
...that occurs in Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity. " 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." Sanctioned, it was presumed, by the Bill of Rights, and... | |
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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... 
