This will ever be the case ; every numerous assembly is moli, let the individuals who compose it be what they will. Mere reason and good sense is never to be talked to a mob ; their passions, their sentiments, their senses, and their seeming interests,... The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son - Page 131by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1901Full view - About this book
| 1774 - 622 pages
...they have collectively none; but they have ears and eye*, which mult be flattered and feduced ; ar.d this can only be done by eloquence, tuneful periods,...various parts of oratory. ' When you come into the Houfe of Commons, if you imagine that fpeaking plain and unadorned fenfe and reafon will do yoar bufinefs,... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1800 - 418 pages
...to be talked to a mob : their pafiions, their fcntiments, their fenfes, and their feeming interefts, are alone to be applied to. Understanding they have...collectively none ; but they have ears and eyes, which muft be flattered and feduced ; and this can only be done by eloquence, tuneful periods, graceful action,... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 408 pages
...let the individuals who eompose it be what they Will. Mere reason and good sense is never to be Udked to a mob : their passions, their sentiments, their...are alone to be applied to. Understanding they have eolleetively none ; but they have ears and eyes, whieh must he flattered and sedueed ; and this ean... | |
| Rogers Ruding - Coinage - 1819 - 514 pages
...asiembly is mob, let the individuals who compose it be what they will. Mere reason and good sense are never to be talked to a mob ; their passions, their...their seeming interests, are alone to be applied to." [Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son.] On this principle Swift wrote, and his writings were, in... | |
| Rogers Ruding - Coinage - 1840 - 542 pages
...assembly is mob, let the individuals who compose it be what they will. Mere reason and good sense are never to be talked to a mob ; their passions, their...their seeming interests, are alone to be applied to." [Lord Chesterfield's Letters to Ait Son]. On this principle Swift wrote, and his writings were, in... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...will ever be the case; every numerous assembly is a mob, let the individuals who compose it be what they will. Mere reason and good sense is never to...graceful action, and all the various parts of oratory." Absurd and disgraceful as was this opposition to an alteration in the Calendar, called for as much... | |
| 1844 - 620 pages
...case ; every numerous assembly is a mob, let the individuals who compose it be what they will. More reason and good sense is never to be talked to a mob...graceful action, and all the various parts of oratory." As the noble reformer could bring these ' various parts of oratory' to bear upon the mob within the... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1857 - 642 pages
...This will ever he the case; every numerous assembly is mob, let the individuals who compose it be what they will. Mere reason and good sense is never to...collectively none, but they have ears, and eyes, which mast be flattered and seduced ; and this can only be done by eloquence, tuneful periods, graceful action,... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1876 - 636 pages
...This will ever be the case; every numeroui assembly is mob, let the individuals who compose it be what they will. Mere reason and good sense is never to...sentiments, their senses, and their seeming interests, are alune to be applied to. Understanding they have collectively none, but they have ears, and eyes, which... | |
| Robert Potts - Arithmetic - 1876 - 392 pages
...assembly is a mob, let the individuals who compose it be what they will. Mere reason and good sense are never to be talked to a mob ; their passions, their...senses, and their seeming interests are alone to be appealed to." On this principle Swift wrote, and his writings were, in the instance before us, eminently... | |
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