 | 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 - Liczba stron: 580
...significant words as the following : 'Do you not think,' he asked, 'that the tone of England — of tbat great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than the policy of the Government? Do... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - 1892 - Liczba stron: 500
...of Mr. Peel, expressed not in debate but in a letter to his friend Oroker. " Do you not think that the tone of England — of that great compound of...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than the policy of the Government? Do... | |
 | World's congress of bankers and financiers, Chicago, 1893 - 1893 - Liczba stron: 624
...laws pertaining to banking and taxation would afford an excellent illustration of the capriciousness of that " great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...newspaper paragraphs which is called public opinion." They have tended to abolish and restrict rather than to use properly, and exiled much Ohio capital,... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1893 - Liczba stron: 310
...not incapable of popular sympathies, described "public opinion" (in a letter written in 1820) as " that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs." In the same generation "Hegel said : "In public opinion are contained all sorts of falsehood and truth."... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 1899 - Liczba stron: 32
...Peel hardly measured its breadth and depth when with cynical insight he described public opinion as "that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs." Public opinion is not very old. It is the child of the art of printing, of modern education, of modern... | |
 | Vermont. State Board of Health - 1901 - Liczba stron: 62
...SANITARY LEGISLATION. BY WN PLAIT, MD, OF SHOREHAM. Sir Robert Peel speaks with the air of a discoverer of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy— newspaper paragraphs which are called public opinion. Yet this has been the ultimate power behind law... | |
 | Harr Wagner - 1902 - Liczba stron: 580
...feel, at the same time admitting the growing power of public opinion. He said: "Do you not think that the tone of England, of that great compound of folly,...prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, or newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion, is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1902 - Liczba stron: 712
...this. 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, wrong feeling, right feeling, i~B ii. 247-349 ; Hadley, page 139. obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion."1... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - Liczba stron: 666
...are in a sense but apparently evil. 2 So Peel, writing to Croker in 1820, described public opinion as "that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs." * Colloquies, ii. , pp. 47-48. civil government, that no temporal advantage is derived from civil government,... | |
 | 1905 - Liczba stron: 858
...be surprised. He knows already all about any appeal that you can make to the better side of him. and he has long ago chopped It up In his mill of small...obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion."4 If this was a true story in 1820 are we so much lower to-day? And before being too sharp... | |
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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... 
