 | 1838 - 444 pages
...establish what you have simply asserted— not proved. Ignorance, it has been said, " is in its own nature flippant and compendious ; it hops with airy...perches upon assertion which it calls conclusion." I know not, Sir, whether your plan in argument is similar to the course recommended by a friend, to... | |
 | William McNally - Merchant marine - 1839 - 222 pages
...follow. I well know also that truth can only be found by slow and painful progress, and that error is flippant and compendious. It hops with airy and fastidious levity over proofs and argumentsand perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. CHAPTER IV. Slop clothing furnished... | |
 | John Philpot Curran, Robert Emmet, Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1840 - 562 pages
...representation. ents, and to avail myself of every topic of defence which I conceive applicable to that case. I am not speaking to a dry point of law, to...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. Here the lord chancellor moved to have the chamber cleared; after some time the doors were opened.*... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1841 - 552 pages
...in the case of the Lord Mayor of Dublin was excellent. The metaphor he used on this occasion — " Error is in its nature flippant and compendious ;...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion." This was light and pretty, and applied so exactly to Lord Clare, that he could not endure it; he lost... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1841 - 546 pages
...in the case of the Lord Mayor of Dublin was excellent. The metaphor he used on this occasion — " Error is in its nature flippant and compendious; it...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion." This was light and pretty, and applied so exactly to Lord Clare, that he could not endure it; he lost... | |
 | 1841 - 844 pages
...extinguisher." Observe the eloquent Curran : " Error is in its nature flippant and CHRIST. OBSERV. No. 44. 3 Q compendious ; it hops with airy and fastidious levity...perches upon assertion which it calls conclusion." OMICRON. ON THE EPWORTH DISTURBANCES; WITH NOTICES OF THE WESLEY FAMILY. To the Editor of the Christian... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1842 - 490 pages
...lies in the narrowest compass ; it is merely whether the Commons have a right of * Sir Constantino Phipps, whose conduct became the subject of much complaint....the Commons had amused themselves there for three or Jour years, it was probable they would be tired of it, and wish themselves out of the dispute." Such... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...him that he was wandering from the question ; and Mr. C. after some general observations, replied, " I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion." — To Lord Clare, however, Mr. C. had every possible temptation to be intractable and impertinent.... | |
 | John Foster - English essays - 1844 - 550 pages
...propriety of taking a wider scope of observation than that dictated to him by the court; and he went on, " I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion." This sentence appeared to his lordship so ominous of another storm, that he moved to have the chamber... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 558 pages
...style of a pleader, I should make a very idle display of profession, with very little information ta those I address, or benefit to those on whose behalf...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. Here the lord chancellor moved to have the chamber cleared^ after some time the doors were opened.*... | |
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I address, or benefit to those on whose behalf I have the honour to be heard. I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and compendious ; it hops with airy and... 
