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
| Elsbeth Heaman - 1999 - 446 strani
...1820 British prime minister Robert Peel asked a friend, '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?' A... | |
| Robert Eccleshall, Graham S. Walker - 1998 - 458 strani
...question which Peel asked a friend in the following year: 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 phase - than the policy of the Government? Do... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 strani
...surprised woman. PEEL Paul 8602 It is no rest to be idle. PEEL Robert 1788-1850 8603 Public opinion is a B B B PEELE George c. 1556- 1596 8604 The Hunting of Cupid What thing is love for (well I wot) love is a... | |
| David George Ritchie - 2003 - 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."... | |
| Chandrika Kaul - 2003 - 324 strani
...this identification was itself unwelcome: Peel, writing to Croker in 1820, described public opinion as 'that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs'.79 To others, like James Mill and Jeremy Bentham, public opinion was the opinion of the... | |
| Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - 2003 - 148 strani
...condemnation of mere opinion." Nineteenth-century British author Sir Robert Peel termed public opinion "a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs." And American author John Erskine sarcastically termed opinion "that exercise of the human will which... | |
| James Mulvihill - 2004 - 300 strani
...and therefore more virtue, more wisdom, than the past," Sir Robert Peel dismissed public opinion as a "great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong...right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs." 3 If in the Rights of Man (1791) Thomas 17 Paine celebrated what he called "universal conversation,"... | |
| Norman McCord, Bill Purdue - 2007 - 613 strani
...Street conspiracy, Peel asked one of his colleagues, 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?... | |
| Jon Koomey - 2008 - 276 strani
...results are reported correctly so that you yourself do not fall prey to this pitfall. Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. CREATE YOUR ANALYSIS N, I ow that you've gleaned what you can from the analysis of others, it's time... | |
| 1884 - 858 strani
...trial, aud goes on to aay: — " BOGNOR, March 23d. " 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... | |
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