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 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1885 - 530 pages
...fail to assert themselves. Writing to Mr. Croker so early as 1820, he says — Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase — than the policy of the Government... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Great Britain - 1884 - 460 pages
...Court of George IV.,' i. 15. Mr. Peel to Mr. Croker. Extract. Bognor, March 23rd. Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase — than the policy of the Government... | |
 | 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,...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase — than the policy of the Government?... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 pages
...political views and his policy. " Do not you think," he writes to Croker on March the 3rd, 1820, " that the tone of England — of that great compound of...newspaper paragraphs which is called public opinion — is more Liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than the policy of the Government ?... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Great Britain - 1885 - 682 pages
...half years' imprisonment.] Mr. Peel to Mr. Croker. Extract. Bognor, March 23rd. Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase— than the policy of the Government... | |
 | 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,...obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion—is more liberal—to use an odious but intelligible phrase—than the policy of the Government... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1888 - 726 pages
...dislike. 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,...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion." Yet opinion has really been the chief and ultimate power in nearly all nations at nearly all times.... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Political science - 1890 - 788 pages
...not incapable of popular sympathies, described " public opinion " (in a letter written in 1820) as "that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,...right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs." In the same generation Hegel said : "In public opinion are contained all sorts of falsehood and / truth."... | |
 | 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
...written to Croker in such significant words as the following : 'Do you not think,' he asked, 'that the tone of England — of that great compound of...newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than the policy of the Government? Do... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - Great Britain - 1891 - 278 pages
...greater detail hereafter, that 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,...obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion—is more liberal, to use an odious but intelligible phrase, than the policy of the Government... | |
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