| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...no less truth and eloquence: "He " that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so 4* well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive " and favourable hearers." This subject might be elucidated by various instances, particularly from the laws and constitution... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 570 pages
...invective, may often supply the place of sober reason. For (in the words of the judicious Hooker) " he that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they...governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive or favourable hearers; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject;... | |
| Europe - 1823 - 946 pages
...Parliament. HOOKER commences his admirable work on Ecclesiastical Polity with this observation ; " He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they...shall never want attentive and favourable hearers." This remark, at once eloquent and just, indicates a deep insight into the principles of human nature.... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...shire ; the particular rates being increased, but the total bulk of trading rather decreased. IBID. HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they...shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereuuto every kind of regimen is subject ; but the secret... | |
| William Eusebius Andrews - 1820 - 502 pages
...exitiosi, nikilspei, nisi per discor" dias habeant, (Jac. II. Ann. c. 17.) And Hooker truly says, " He " that goeth about to persuade a " multitude, that...shall never want attentive and " favourable hearers." That there has been and is a great inclination to tumult. &c. no person will or can deny, and if the... | |
| Francis Gregor - Debts, Public - 1816 - 332 pages
...for a fair hearing ; and on their good spirit for fair play. The passage from Hooker is as follows ." He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that "...shall never want attentive and favourable hearers. " Because they know the manifold defects whereunto " every kind of government is subject. But the secret... | |
| Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819 - 1819 - 66 pages
...given from the Bill of Rights, the first sentence that occurs in Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity. " He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that...shall never want attentive and favourable hearers." Sanctioned, it was presumed, by the Bill of Rights, and the various other authorities to which Blackstone... | |
| Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...been wanting in any age or country. " He that goeth about," says the learned and judicious Hooker, " to persuade a multitude that they are not so well...shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regimen is subject ; but the secret... | |
| Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - Church polity - 1821 - 392 pages
...belongeth to the cause in question. HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are The cause not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want ^gene?*! attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the ma- discourse. nifold defects whereunto... | |
| Richard Hooker - 1822 - 376 pages
...belongeth to the cause in question. HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are The cause not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want ^""neroi attentive and favourable hearers; because they know the ma- discourse, nifold defects whereunto... | |
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