 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1857 - 702 pages
...exists under different shapes in all governments more or less stifled, controlled or repressed ; but in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest...horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But thia leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result,... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 624 pages
...exists under different shapes, in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed. But in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest...sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissensions, which, in different ages and countries, has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 668 pages
...exists under different shapes, in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed. But in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest...sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissensions, which, in different ages and countries, has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is... | |
 | Jonathan French - Newspapers - 1857 - 594 pages
...exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy. The alternate-domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Capital punishment - 1954 - 440 pages
...Country. George Washington. I am quoting now from Washington's Farewell Address : "The alternate dominion of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit...natural to party dissension, which in different ages and counf'es )-as perpetuated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1957 - 402 pages
...all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed, but in those of the popular forum it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Biography & Autobiography - 1962 - 296 pages
...exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stified, controuled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest...sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which, in different ages and countries, has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1920 - 842 pages
...different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled or repressed, but in those of popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy. * * * It serves always to distract the public councils, and enfeebles the public administration with... | |
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This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but in those of the popular... 
