...and wherever it may be, is but an ordinary lesson of history. " He that goeth about to persuade the multitude that they are not so well governed as they...shall never want attentive and favourable hearers " was said three hundred years ago by Hooker, and is to-day true. This fretfulness and expectation...

...nominally at war. In his "Ecclesiastical Polity" that fine old Elizabethan divine, Bishop Hooker, wrote: He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they...as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers, because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regimen is subject;...

...nominally at war. In his "Ecclesiastical Polity" that fine old Elizabethan divine, Bishop Hooker, wrote: "He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that...they ought to be, shall never want attentive" and favorable hearers; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regimen is subject,...

...at war. In his "Ecclesiastical Polity" that fine old Elizabethan divine, Bishop Hooker, wrote : — "He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that...as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers, because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regimen is subject;...

...follow such men, we see a pertinent and frequent illustration of the ' judicious Hooker's ' maxim : ' He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they...shall never want attentive and favourable hearers.' And it sometimes happens that men in office are more subject to censure and calumny in proportion as...

...RICHARD HOOKER [From Ecclesiastical Polity, Book I, 1592] 1. Maintaining Things That Are Established all unquiet things Which stir too strongly the soul's...themselves the fools to those they fool; Envied, yet favorable hearers; because they know the manifold defects wherennto every kind of regiment is subject,...

...he is likely to confuse his reader and himself. Hooker opens with one of his disarming utterances: " He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that...every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets [hindrances] and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have...

...confuse his reader and himself. Hooker opens with one of his disarming utterances: " He that gocth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so...every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets [hindrances] and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have...

...nominally at war. In his "Ecclesiastical Polity"0 that fine old Elizabethan divine, Bishop Hooker, wrote: "He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that...are not so well governed as they ought to be shall is never want attentive and favorable hearers, because they know the manifold defects whereunto every...

...at war. In his "Ecclesiastical Polity" that fine old Elizabethan divine, Bishop Hooker, wrote : — "He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that...as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers, because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regimen is subject...