 Further, it is salutary for supreme authority, even when its intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment. On the...  The Oriental Herald - Page 2021824Full view - About this book
 | Asia - 1820 - 718 pages
...intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny : while conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its...contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise wields the most powerful instrument that can appertain... | |
 | Leicester Stanhope Earl of Harrington - Censorship - 1823 - 218 pages
...intentions are most pure, to look to the controul of public scrutiny ; while, conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its...exposure to general comment On the contrary, it acquires incalcu* Jahle addition offeree. "' That government which has nothing to disguise wields the most powerful... | |
 | Asia - 1824 - 724 pages
...intentions are most pure, to look to the controul of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its...contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force. " That government which has nothing to disguise, wields the most powerful instrument that can appertain... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 782 pages
...public." The same persons who admitted in 1819, that "while conscious of rectitude, authority could lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general...contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force," now state that " even if the matter stated be correct, the public could afford no relief; " and that... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 596 pages
...intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny : while conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its...to general comment ; on the contrary, it acquires an incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise, wields the most powerful... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 662 pages
...the acts of the Supreme Authority there. Lord Hastings'Had said, " While conscious of rectitude, that Authority can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment ; on the contrary (he added) it acquires incalculable addition of force." Here, then, that consciousness of rectitude... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 590 pages
...public scrutiny ; ' while conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its 'strength by exposure to general comment. On the contrary, it ' acquires incalculable addition of force,' &c. 1 \ • If this language does not invite the scrutiny of public opinion (applied by the agency... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1824 - 658 pages
...most pure, to look to the control' of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authoriiy can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment, un the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1825 - 826 pages
...intention« are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its...contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise, wields the most powerful instrument that can appertain... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 542 pages
...public scrutiny ; while, conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by exposure to general comment ; on the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force." This it will be allowed is an excellent text — the illustration is quite as remarkable in its way,... | |
| |
