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The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ... - Page 51
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The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ...

William Oldys, John Malham - Europe - 1808 - 594 pages
...others; and how can publick mischiefs be brought on us, but by the ill administration of those who are concerned in the government? And when this prophetical...will happen amiss, let men do what they can ; and the common people who see the immediate and obvious effects of some inconveniencies, to which all sorts...
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The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 1

William Oldys, Thomas Park - Great Britain - 1808 - 586 pages
...foundation is once laid, then every accident which happens shall minister some jealousies and suspicions 5 every suspicion shall beget another ; and can a man...some men strangely affect the favour and good word of tlw common people; and what readier way to obtain it, than by persuading them that they are not so...
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The Port Folio, Volume 3

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 570 pages
...sober 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...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

Europe - 1823 - 946 pages
...work 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...
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Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ...

Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...increased, but 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...
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The Orthodox journal and Catholic monthly intelligencer [ed. by W ..., Volume 8

William Eusebius Andrews - 1820 - 502 pages
...habeant, (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...
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The Works of Francis Gregor, of Trewarthennick, Esq

Francis Gregor - Debts, Public - 1816 - 332 pages
...for 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...
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An impartial narrative of the late melancholy occurrences in Manchester

Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819 - 1819 - 66 pages
...sentence 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,...
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The Plain Englishman [ed. by C. Knight and E.H. Locker]., Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...or country. " He that goeth about," says the learned and judicious Hooker, " 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...
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volume 12

1823 - 944 pages
...work 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...
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