 ... statesmen, with the lessons of all history before their eyes, should have been equally ready to embrace such a rash alliance, or should count upon it as any more than a temporary instrument of faction, is, to say the least of it, one of those self-delusions...  The life and times of the right hon. John Bright - Side 24av William Robertson (reporter.) - 1884Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1827 - 790 sider
...is, to say the least of it, one of those self-delusions of the wise, which show how vainly the voice of the Past may speak amid the loud appeals and temptations of the Present. The last Prince of Wales, it is true, by whom the popular cause was espoused, had left the lesson imperfect,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 462 sider
...is, to say the least of it, one of those self-delusions of the wise, which show how vainly the voice of the Past may speak amid the loud appeals and temptations of the Present. The last Prince of Wales, it is true, by whom the popular cause was espoused, had left the lesson imperfect,... | |
 | 1825 - 508 sider
...is, to say the least of it, one of those self-delusions of the wise, which show how vainly the voice of the Past may speak amid the loud appeals and temptations of the Present. The last Prince of Wales, it is true, by whom the popular cause was espoused, had left the lesson imperfect,... | |
 | 1825 - 620 sider
...is, to SitV the least of it, one of those self-delusions of the wise, which show how vainly the voice of the past may speak amid the loud appeals and temptations of the present. The last Prince of Wales, it is tnie, by whom the popular cause wris espoused, had left the lesson... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 654 sider
...is, to say the least of it, one of those self-delusions of the wise, which show how vainly the voice of the Past may speak amid the loud appeals and temptations of the Present. The last Prince of Wales, it is true, by whom the popular cause was espoused, had left the lesson imperfect,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 570 sider
...is, to say the least of it, one of those self-delusions of the wise, which show how vainly the voice of the Past may speak amid the loud appeals and temptations of the Present. The last Prince of Wales, it is true, by whom the popular cause' was espoused, had left the lesson... | |
 | 1826 - 868 sider
...is, to say the least of it, one of those self-dtlusions of the wise, which show how vainly the voice of the past may speak amid the loud appeals and temptations of the present. The last Prince of Wales, it is true, by whom the popular cause was espoused, had left the lesson imperfect,... | |
 | 1827 - 854 sider
...is, to say the least of it, one of those self-delusions of the wise which shew how vainly the voice of the past may speak, amid the loud appeals and temptations of the present.'' Self-deluded these wise men certainly were ; and we may conclude that the sanguine disposition of Sheridan... | |
 | Hannibal Evans Lloyd - 1830 - 612 sider
...is, to say the least of it, one of those self-delusions of the wise, which shew how vainly the voice of the past may speak amid the loud appeals and temptations of the present. "In some points, the breach that now took place between the prince and the King bore a close resemblance... | |
 | 1831 - 526 sider
...is, to say the least of it, one of those self-delusions of the wise, which show how vainly the voice of the past may speak amid the loud appeals and temptations of the present. " In some points, the breach that now took place between the Prince and the King bore a close resemblance... | |
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