 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 432 pages
...the community, has no authority to restrain him, however he might do it from kindness as s He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers. Hooker. — ED. a... | |
 | Asia - 1826 - 842 pages
...deemed harsh or improper. The judicious Hooker had the following remark in his book : — " He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they should be, never wants attentive hearers." Mr. B. proved the truth of this maxim.... | |
 | Richard Hooker, Henry Clissold - Church polity - 1831 - 168 pages
...ordered that no man might probably otherwise think of them. 8. Advocates of Reform are popular. He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers. 9. Reason thereof.... | |
 | Working class - 1832 - 220 pages
...old fashioned fellow as Your constant reader, QUONDAM OXONIENSIS. ~ A WEIGHTY SENTIMENT. " He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers, because they know... | |
 | 1832 - 564 pages
...every man, learned or unlearned, fancies himself called upon to legislate upon every subject. " He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know... | |
 | Theology - 1834 - 764 pages
...and as to the duped, the well known quotation from the learned and judicious Hooker tells us, that " he who goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be " (or not so well attended to), "shall never want attentive and favourable... | |
 | J. D. H. H. - 1834 - 60 pages
...objections it would be wasting time to reply, but for the truth of Hooker's observation, that " he that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable bearers." Our Bishops, then,... | |
 | George Lunt - Law - 1835 - 28 pages
...bestow. It is the sentiment of an old and profound writer, of the very highest authority, that, " He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favorable hearers." The mind of an unenlightened... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...from whence they have sprung be unknown, as to the greatest part of men they are. He therefore that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers, because they know... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...first sentence of our Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity contains not less truth and eloquence : " He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers. "_*_ The editor cannot... | |
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He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers... 
