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" For what argument of madness can there be greater than to clamour, strike, and throw stones at our best friends ? Yet this is somewhat less than such a multitude will do. For they will clamour, fight against, and destroy, those by whom all their lifetime... "
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and ... - Page 100
by Henry Hallam - 1839
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 632 pages
...the rage of the whole multitude is visible enough. For what greater argument of madness can there be than to clamour, strike, and throw stones at our best...multitude, it is the same in every particular man. For as in the midst of the sea, though a man perceive no sound of that part of the water next him,...
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The Philosophy of Hobbes in Extracts and Notes Collated from His Writings

Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...of them conspire together, the rage of the whole multitude is visible enough. For what argument of madness can there be greater, than to clamour, strike,...multitude, it is the same in every particular man. For as in the midst of the sea, though a man perceive no sound of that part of the water next him,...
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Hobbes

Leslie Stephen, Frederic William Maitland - Philosophers - 1904 - 280 pages
...multitude, he says, answering by anticipation a famous query of Bishop Butler. "For what argument of madness can there be greater than to clamour, strike...multitude, it is the same in every particular man." Each particle of water " contributes as much to the roaring of the sea" as any other drop, and the...
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Hobbes

Leslie Stephen, Frederic William Maitland - Philosophers - 1904 - 264 pages
...multitude, he says, answering by anticipation a famous query of Bishop Butler. "For what argument of madness can there be greater than to clamour, strike and throw stones at our best friends 1 Yet this is somewhat less than such a multitude will do. For they will clamour, fight against and...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 34

Literature - 1910 - 470 pages
...of them conspire together, the rage of the whole multitude is visible enough. For what argument of madness can there be greater than to clamour, strike,...multitude, it is the same in every particular man. For, as in the midst of the sea though a man perceive no sound of that part of the water next him,...
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French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes

René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1910 - 436 pages
...of them conspire together, the rage of the whole multitude is visible enough. For what argument of madness can there be greater than to clamour, strike,...multitude, it is the same in every particular man. For, as in the midst of the sea though a man perceive no sound of that part of the water next him,...
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French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes: With ...

René Descartes - Philosophy - 1910 - 446 pages
...of them conspire together, the rage of the whole multitude is visible enough. For what argument of madness can there be greater than to clamour, strike,...multitude, it is the same in every particular man. For, as in the midst of the sea though a man perceive no sound of that part of the water next him,...
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Thomas Hobbes, de la métaphysique à la politique: actes du colloque franco ...

Martin A. Bertman, Michel Malherbe - Philosophy - 1989 - 256 pages
...of madness when they only tend to evil. He explicitly puts forward the behavior of those who clamor, fight against, and destroy those, by whom all their...they have been protected, and secured from injury. (Lev VIII, 21) as an example of madness. There is no doubt that he regards those passions that tend...
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Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche

David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...of them conspire together, the rage of the whole multitude is visible enough. For what argument of right he has of preserving all mankind; and doing...E ֗ "7 1996 Hackett Pub."! Wootton David" D For as in the midst of the sea, though a man perceive no sound of that part of the water next him;...
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The Sensational Restoration

H. James Jensen - English drama - 1996 - 478 pages
...whole multitude is visible enough. For what argument of madness can there be greater, than to clamor, strike, and throw stones at our best friends? Yet...less than such a multitude will do. For they will clamor, fight against, and destroy those, by whom all their life-time before, they have been protected,...
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