 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...remember Sir Robert Peel's words a dozen years before the first Reform Bill: "The tone of England— of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion.'" If this was a true story in 1820 are we so much lower to-day? And... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1885 - 530 pages
...Writing to Mr. Croker so early as 1820, he says — Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase —... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Great Britain - 1884 - 460 pages
...Mr. Peel to Mr. Croker. Extract. Bognor, March 23rd. Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase —... | |
 | England - 1884 - 876 pages
...and goes on to say : — " BOONOB, March 23rl. " Do not you think that the tone of England — oit that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase —... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 pages
..." Do not you think," he writes to Croker on March the 3rd, 1820, " that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice',...right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs which is called public opinion — is more Liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1885 - 490 pages
...Mr. Fed to Mr. Crok.tr. Extract. Bognor, March 23nL Do not you think that the tone of England—of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion—is more liberal—to use an odious but intelligible phrase—than... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Political corruption - 1888 - 760 pages
...Sir Robert Peel, for instance, in a letter written in 1820, speaks with the air of a discoverer, of "that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion." Yet opinion has really been the chief and ultimate power in nearly... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Political science - 1890 - 788 pages
...allowed freedom of association and of expression, very speedily turn themselves into ten thousand, if they have only lukewarm and half-hearted antagonists....great man. He who tells his age what it wills and I ^xpresses, and brings that to fulfilment, is the great man of the age." (Phil, des Rechts, § 318,... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - 1891 - 264 pages
...he wrote to Croker on 23d March 1820 as follows : " Do you not think that the tone of England— of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion—is more liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1891 - 582 pages
...significant words as the following : 'Do you not think,' he asked, 'that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than... | |
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England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion... 
