 | Fisher Ames - United States - 1809 - 576 pages
...the mass of men just where it found it; but, by supplying an endless stimulus to their imagination and passions, it has rendered their temper and habits...by reason, are no longer to be awed by authority. The many, who before the art of printing never mistook in a case of oppression, because they complained... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 616 pages
...liberty)—' the press has left the understanding of the mass of men just where it found it; but by supplying an endless stimulus to their imaginations and passions,...by reason, are no longer to be awed by authority. The many, who before the art of printing, never mistook in a case of oppression, because they complained... | |
 | 1820 - 632 pages
...' the press has left the understanding of the mass of men just where it found it ; but by supplying an endless stimulus to their imaginations and passions,...by reason, are no longer to be awed by authority. The many, who before the art of printing, never mistook in a case of oppression, because they complained... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 628 pages
...' the press has left the understanding of the mass of men just where it found it; but by supplying an endless stimulus to their imaginations and passions,...by reason, are no longer to be awed by authority. The many, who before the art of printing, never mistook in a case of oppression, because they complained... | |
 | Fisher Ames - Democracy - 1835 - 222 pages
...the mass of men just where it found it; but, by supplying an endless stimulus to their imagination and passions, it has rendered their temper and habits...by reason, are no longer to be awed by authority. The many, who, before the art of printing, never mistook 2 DEMOCRATIC ASCENDANCY. ia case of oppression,... | |
 | 1842 - 300 pages
...the mass of men just where it found it ; but, by supplying an endless stimulus to their imaginations, it has rendered their temper and habits infinitely...governed by reason are no longer to be awed by authority. The many, who before the art of printing never mistook in a case of oppression, because they complained... | |
 | Fisher Ames - United States - 1854 - 466 pages
...the mass of men just where it found it ; but by supplying an endless stimulus to their imagination and passions, it has rendered their temper and habits...governed by reason are no longer to be awed by authority. The many, who before the art of printing never mistook in a case of oppression, because they complained... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...the mass of men just where it found it; but, by supplying an endless stimulus to their imagination and passions, It has rendered their temper and habits...those who cannot be governed by reason are no longer awed by authority. . . . While it has impaired the force that every just government can employ In self-defence,... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...the mass of men just where It found it; but, by supplying an endless stimulus to their Imagination and passions, It has rendered their temper and habits...those who cannot be governed by reason are no longer awed by authority. . . . While it has impaired the force that every just government can employ in self-defence,... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - United States - 1898 - 446 pages
...to conceive how, by rendering men indocile and presumptuous, it can change them for the better. ... It has inspired ignorance with presumption, so that...those who cannot be governed by reason are no longer awed by authority." These forebodings soon seemed to be in course of rapid fulfilment. The highest... | |
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The press, however, has left the understanding of the mass of men just where it found it ; but by supplying an endless stimulus to their imagination and passions, it has rendered their temper and habits infinitely worse. It has inspired ignorance with... 
