 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 str.
...Alison to this day holds that revolution is an infectious disease, beginning no one knows how, and going no one knows where. There is but one rule of escape,...accustomed to do, and consult your grandmother on every thing." In 1812 the English people were all persuaded of this theory. Mr. Percival was the most... | |
 | 1889 - 876 str.
...reckon. " Hardly any fact in history," says Mr. Bagehot, writing about the middle of the centnry, " is so incredible as that forty and a few years ago...equally incredible to us is the ardor of revolution that then filled the world, — the fact that one of the rulers of the world's mind in that generation was... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - 1865 - 710 str.
...eadem" was their maxim; or, as a late writer has happily expressed it, with as much truth as sarcasm, "Stay still, don't move ; do what you have been accustomed...to do, and consult your grandmother on everything." In 1794 every man of wealth in England was a firm believer in this principle. "If," said they, " we... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1881 - 388 str.
...Alison to this day holds that revolution is an infectious disease, beginning no one knows how, and going no one knows where. There is but one rule of escape,...to do, and consult your grandmother on everything.' In 1812 the English people were all persuaded of this theory. Mr. Perceval was the most narrow-minded... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1881 - 390 str.
...Alison to this day holds that revolution is an infectious disease, beginning no one knows how, and going no one knows where. There is but one rule of escape,...to do, and consult your grandmother on everything.' In 1812 the English people were all persuaded of this theory. Mr. Perceval was the most narrow-minded... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1889 - 414 str.
...Alison to this day holds that revolution is an infectious disease, beginning no one knows how, and going no one knows where. There is but one rule of escape,...to do, and consult your grandmother on everything.' In 1812 the English people were all persuaded of this theory. Mr. Perceval was the most narrow-minded... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 466 str.
...Curates' Salary Bill safely to a third reading." — ED. disease, beginning no one knows how and going no one knows where; there is but one rule of escape,...to do, and consult your grandmother on everything. In 1812 the English people were all persuaded of this theory ; Mr. Perceval was the most narrow-minded... | |
 | 1901 - 538 str.
...related also to the French philosophical radicals. We claimed kinship with democrats everywhere — with all democrats. We can now scarcely realize the atmosphere...filled the world in those first days of our national life — the fact that one of the rulers of the world's mind in that generation was Rousseau, the apostle... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1921 - 442 str.
...the whole national spirit and interest was absorbed in the contest with Napoleon, how little we 86 understood the sort of man who should regulate its...filled the world in those first days of our national life, — the fact that one of the rulers of the world's mind in that generation was Rousseau, the... | |
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Europe.' as Sydney Smith said, ' he safely brought the curates' salaries improvement bill to a hearing'; and it still more shows the horror of all innovation which the recent events of French history had impressed on our wealthy and comfortable classes.... 