 | Asia - 1820 - 718 pages
...supreme authority, even when its intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny : while conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose...its exposure to general, comment. On the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise wields the... | |
 | Leicester Stanhope Earl of Harrington - Censorship - 1823 - 218 pages
...supreme authority, even when its intentions are most pure, to look to the controul of public scrutiny ; while, conscious of rectitude, that authority can...by its exposure to general comment On the contrary, it acquires incalcu* Jahle addition offeree. "' That government which has nothing to disguise wields... | |
 | Christianity - 1824 - 662 pages
...from the exercise of public scrutiny on the acts of the Supreme Authority there. Lord Hastings had said, " While conscious of rectitude, that Authority...wanting ; for this exposure to comment was of all other* the greatest evil it apprehended. " Let the triumph of our beloved country," said Lord tjastingp,... | |
 | Asia - 1824 - 724 pages
...Supreme Authority, even when its intentions are most pure, to look to the controul of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose...its exposure to general comment. On the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force. " That government which has nothing to disguise, wields... | |
 | Christianity - 1824 - 782 pages
...for tupreme authority (not merely subordinate officers) to look to the Control of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose...its exposure to general comment : on the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force." Mr. Adam says that " any one writer exercising such scrutiny... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 596 pages
...supreme authority, even when its intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny : while conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose...its exposure to general comment ; on the contrary, it acquires an incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise, wields... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1824 - 658 pages
...most pure, to look to the control' of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authoriiy can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment, un the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1825 - 826 pages
...supreme authority, even when its intention« are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose...its exposure to general comment. On the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise, wields the... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 542 pages
...he speaks of, and in, India, " for the supreme authority to look to the control of public scrutiny ; while, conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by exposure to general comment ; on the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force." This it... | |
 | Sir John Malcolm - India - 1826 - 642 pages
...supreme authority, even when its intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny : while conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose...its exposure to general comment. On the contrary, it requires incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise wields the... | |
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If our motives of action are worthy, it must be wise to render them intelligible throughout an empire, our hold on which is opinion. Further, it is salutary for supreme authority, even when its intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public... 
