 | 1852 - 532 pages
...their reception ; for to use the well-known and memorable words of the venerable Hooker: — " 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 the... | |
 | Alfred BARRETT (Wesleyan Minister.) - Church polity - 1854 - 506 pages
...experience of this has given the weight of an aphorism to Hooker's well-known initial saying : " 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." In a family those... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Land titles - 1854 - 78 pages
...says Hooker, in the well known passage which opens his great work on Ecclesiastical Polity, " 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... | |
 | 1884 - 874 pages
...sharp things. The very first sentence in it.. Polity is as pert as it is certainly true ; " He tin' goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to '<• shall never want attentive and favourable hearers. And he remarks upon... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - Newton, Robert, 1780-1854 - 1855 - 424 pages
...espouse the cause of men who place themselves in opposition to established rule and order. " 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 ; because they know... | |
 | Thomas Lewin - Economics - 1856 - 138 pages
...Eltham, October, 1855. CIVIL GOVERNMENT. " HE," observes a great writer, [Hooker's Ecc. Pol.} "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, because they know the... | |
 | Thomas Lewin - Economics - 1856 - 138 pages
...Banks 113 Conclusion 119 CIVIL GOVERNMENT. "HE," observes a great writer, [Hooker' 's Ecc. Pol.] "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, because they know the... | |
 | William P. Hale - British - 1857 - 86 pages
...OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. BY WILLIAM P. HALE, ESQ., • - •^f OP THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BABRISTEB-AT-1ATV. " He who 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, Eccl.... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - North Carolina - 1858 - 624 pages
...never dieont; and he was a wise and observant man who commenced a very wise book with the words : " He who 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."1 But peace is most... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...INTRODUCTION OF THE SUBJECT : DEFINITION OF LAW : NATURAL LAW. (BOOK I., SECTIONS I. II. III.) 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... | |
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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... 
