 Heaven itself is dimly written there ; nay do not neglect, if you have opportunity, to ascertain what they vote and say. One thing the stupidest multitude at a hustings can do, provided only it be sincere : Inform you how it likes this man or that, this...  Past and present - Seite 525von Thomas Carlyle - 1897Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1850 - 455 Seiten
...this function, in the maddest times and with Faust of Mentz reverberating every madness ad infinituni, no Parliament can fall. Votes of men are worth collecting,...even when its nonsense is not sincere, but produced in great part by beer and stump-oratory, will yet by the very act of voting feel itself bound in honor;... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1850 - 362 Seiten
...this man or that, this proposed law or that. " I do not like thee, Dr. Fell; the reason why I can not tell;" and, perhaps, indeed, there is no reason; nevertheless,...even when its nonsense is not sincere, but produced in great part by beer and stump-oratory, will yet by the very act of voting feel itself bound in honor;... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1850 - 434 Seiten
...that, this proposed law or that. " F do not like thee, Dr. Fell; the reason why I cannot tell,"—and perhaps indeed there is no reason ; nevertheless let...even when its nonsense is not sincere, but produced in great part by beer and stump-oratory, will yet by the very act of voting feel itself bound in honour;... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 910 Seiten
...a dozen Coleridgcs, we can only explain to ourselves through the philosophy of antipathies : — ' I do not like thee Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee Dr. Fell.' ever, with him for saying pretty... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1851 - 426 Seiten
...persons and dislike others, though there are reasons, if we could reach them; according to the lines, " I do not like thee, Dr. Fell; The reason why, I cannot tell." Or a person says, " I do not know how it is that this or that writer so comes home to me, and so inspires... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1851 - 442 Seiten
...persons and dislike others, though there are reasons, if we could reach them ; according to the lines, " I do not like thee, Dr. Fell ; The reason why, I cannot tell." Or a person says, " I do not know how it is that this or that writer so comes home to me, and so inspires... | |
 | 1852 - 672 Seiten
...Dr. Parr the nomen " Dr. Fell," I do not know. I have often heard my dear mother repeat the lines : " I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. The metre of the third line would be more... | |
 | 1852 - 776 Seiten
...some one wrote about Dr. Fell, then the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, may illustrate my meaning: — I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. But, we all exert another kind of... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 Seiten
...possum dicere, non amo te ! ' The English parody may be more applicable to these gentlemen : — ' I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this, I'm sure, I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.' " It is fair, Sir, to say, that... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 448 Seiten
...Wisdom has waved her sad and peremptory farewell. A Parliament, speaking through reporters to Bunkum and the Twenty-seven millions mostly fools, has properly...like thee, Dr. Fell ; the reason why I cannot tell," 26* — and perhaps indeed there is no reason ; nevertheless let the Governor too be thankful to know... | |
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