We live in times of violence and of extremes, and all those who are for creating or even for retaining checks upon power are considered as enemies to order. However, one must do one's duty, and one must endeavour to do it without passion, but everything... Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox - Page 61by Charles James Fox - 1854Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 874 pages
...of the world which, without it, would be insipid."—"\Ve live," he observes on another occasion, " in times of violence and of extremes, and all those...and one must endeavour to do it without passion." After relating the final junction of his old friends with ad«ninistration, he adds, " You will easily... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 844 pages
...of the world which, without it, would be insipid." — "We live," he observes on another occasion, " in times of violence and of extremes, and all those...and one must endeavour to do it without passion." After relating the final junction of his old friends with administration, he adds, " You will easily... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 848 pages
...shall not acquiesce in this tyranny without an effort, but I am far from sanguine as to success. Wo live in times of violence and of extremes, and all...— However, one must do one's duty, and one must endeavor to do it without passion, but everything in Europe appears, to my ideas, so monstrous, that... | |
 | Thomas Wright, Robert Harding Evans - Caricature - 1851 - 524 pages
...live in times of violence and extremes/' says Fox, in a letter to one of his correspondents, " and all who are for creating, or even for retaining checks upon power, are considered as enemies to order." Fox was accordingly represented as a Republican, though he had given a most lucid exposition of his... | |
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