...justice, and the best rulers seldom find the freest passage. He that goes about to persuade a multitude they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall sooner want argument than attenagainst the inordinate ambition and subtle prac-r tices of Courtiers...

...justice, and the best rulers seldom find the freest passage. He that goes about to persuade a multitude they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall sooner want argument than attenagainst the inordinate ambition and subtle practices of Courtiers and...

...invective, may often supply the place of 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 he, shall never want attentive or favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto...

...17.) The first sentence of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity contains no less truth and eloquence: "He " that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so 4* well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive " and favourable hearers." This subject...

...favour and good word of the common people ; and what readier way to obtain it, than by persuading them that they are not so well governed as they ought to be? Some things will happen amiss, let men do what they can ; and the common people who see the immediate...

...favour and good word of the common people; and what readier way .to obtain it, than by persuading them that they are not so well governed as they ought to be? Some things will happen amiss, let men do what they can; and thç common people who see the immediate...

...invective, may often supply the place of sober reason. For (in the words of the judicious Hooker) " he that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they...governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive or favourable hearers; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject;...

...Parliament. HOOKER commences his admirable work on Ecclesiastical Polity with this observation ; " He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they...as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers." This remark, at once eloquent and just, indicates a deep insight into the principles...

...shire ; the particular rates being increased, but the total bulk of trading rather decreased. IBID. HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they...as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereuuto every kind of regimen is subject...

...exitiosi, nikilspei, nisi per discor" dias habeant, (Jac. II. Ann. c. 17.) And Hooker truly says, " He " that goeth about to persuade a " multitude, that they...they ought to be, " shall never want attentive and " favourable hearers." That there has been and is a great inclination to tumult. &c. no person will...