 England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion...  The American Commonwealth - Stran 20avtor: James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1888Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 582 strani
...such significant words as the following : 'Do you not think,' he asked, '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? Do... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - 1891 - 278 strani
...that he wrote to Croker on 23d March 1820 as follows : " Do you not 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 580 strani
...significant words as the following : 'Do you not think,' he asked, 'that the tone of England — of tbat great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than the policy of the Government? Do... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - 1892 - 500 strani
...not in debate but in a letter to his friend Oroker. " Do you not 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? Do... | |
 | World's congress of bankers and financiers, Chicago, 1893 - 1893 - 624 strani
...laws pertaining to banking and taxation would afford an excellent illustration of the capriciousness of that " great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...newspaper paragraphs which is called public opinion." They have tended to abolish and restrict rather than to use properly, and exiled much Ohio capital,... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1893 - 310 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."... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 1899 - 32 strani
...Peel hardly measured its breadth and depth when with cynical insight he described public opinion as "that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs." Public opinion is not very old. It is the child of the art of printing, of modern education, of modern... | |
 | Vermont. State Board of Health - 1901 - 62 strani
...that discussion for others now. SANITARY LEGISLATION. BY WN PLAIT, MD, OF SHOREHAM. Sir Robert Peel speaks with the air of a discoverer of that great...prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy— newspaper paragraphs which are called public opinion. Yet this has been the ultimate power behind law... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1902 - 712 strani
...authority against the will of the people. " x It has taken political leaders sometime to learn this. Sir Robert Peel, for instance, in a letter written...weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, i~B ii. 247-349 ; Hadley, page 139. obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion."1... | |
 | Harr Wagner - 1902 - 580 strani
...admitting the growing power of public opinion. He said: "Do you not think that the tone of England, of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, or newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion, is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible... | |
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