 | 1905 - 1004 lapas
...remember Sir Robert Peel's words a dozen years before the first Reform Bill: "The tone of England— of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion.'" If this was a true story in 1820 are we so much lower to-day? And... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1885 - 530 lapas
...Writing to Mr. Croker so early as 1820, he says — Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase —... | |
 | 1884 - 876 lapas
...and goes on to say : — " BOONOB, March 23rl. " Do not you think that the tone of England — oit that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase —... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1884 - 460 lapas
...Mr. Peel to Mr. Croker. Extract. Bognor, March 23rd. Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase —... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1885 - 490 lapas
...Mr. Fed to Mr. Crok.tr. Extract. Bognor, March 23nL Do not you think that the tone of England—of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion—is more liberal—to use an odious but intelligible phrase—than... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 lapas
..." Do not you think," he writes to Croker on March the 3rd, 1820, " that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice',...right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs which is called public opinion — is more Liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1888 - 760 lapas
...Sir Robert Peel, for instance, in a letter written in 1820, speaks with the air of a discoverer, of "that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion." Yet opinion has really been the chief and ultimate power in nearly... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1890 - 788 lapas
...that idea in such a way as to awaken others to the consciousness of it and of its importance — such an one is a leader of men. The practical leader, as...great man. He who tells his age what it wills and I ^xpresses, and brings that to fulfilment, is the great man of the age." (Phil, des Rechts, § 318,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 582 lapas
...significant words as the following : 'Do you not think,' he asked, 'that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - 1891 - 264 lapas
...he wrote to Croker on 23d March 1820 as follows : " Do you not think that the tone of England— of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion—is more liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than the... | |
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England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion... 
