 ... how much in all ages have wounds and shrieks and tears been the cheap and vulgar resources of the rulers of mankind ; how difficult and how noble it is to govern in kindness and to found an empire upon the everlasting basis of justice and affection...  Calcutta Review - Page 551846Full view - About this book
 | Christianity - 1855 - 534 pages
...to govern in kindness, and to found an empire upon the everlasting basis of justice and affection ! But what do men call vigour? To let loose hussars...with lighted matches, and to cut, and push, and prime — 1 call this, not vigour, but the slot/i of cruelly and ignorance. The vigour 1 love, consists in... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 388 pages
...govern in kindness, and to found an empire upon the everlasting basis of justice and affection '. — But what do men call vigour? To let loose hussars...not vigour, but the sloth of cruelty and ignorance. The vigour I love consists in finding out wherein subjects are aggrieved, in relieving them, in studying... | |
 | India - 1844 - 606 pages
...govern in kindness, and to " found an empire upon the everlasting basis of justice and " affection ! But what do men call vigour ? To let loose " hussars...lighted " matches, and to cut, and push, and prime. / call this, not vigour, " but the sloth of cruelty and ignorance" Bowing reverentially to this truth,... | |
 | United States - 1844 - 671 pages
...found an empire upon the everlasting basis of justice and affection ! But what do men call vigor ? To let loose hussars and to bring up artillery, to...and to cut, and push, and prime — I call this, not vigor, but the sloth of cruelly and ignorance. The vigor I love, consists in finding out wherein subjects... | |
 | Literature - 1845 - 670 pages
...govern in kindness, and to found an empire upon the everlasting basis of justice and affection ! — But what do men call vigour ? To let loose hussars...not vigour, but the sloth of cruelty and ignorance. The vigour I love, consists in finding out wherein subjects are aggrieved, in relieving them, in studying... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1845 - 496 pages
...govern in kindness, and to found an empire upon the everlasting basis of justice and affection ! — But what do men call vigour? To let loose hussars...push, and prime — I call this, not vigour, but the nloth of cruelty and ignorance. The vigour I love consists in finding out wherein subjects are aggrieved,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 522 pages
...govern in kindness and to found an empire upon the everlasting basis of justice and affection ! — But what do men call vigour ? To let loose hussars...not vigour, but the sloth of cruelty and ignorance. The vigour I love consists in finding out wherein subjects are aggrieved, in relieving them, in studying... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Essays - 1850 - 736 pages
...govern in kindness and to found an empire upon the everlasting basis of justice and affection ! — But what do men call vigour? To let loose hussars...govern with lighted matches, and to cut, and push, and prime—I call this, not vigour, but the sloth of cruelty and ignorance. The vigour I love consists... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Catholic emancipation - 1852 - 246 pages
...to govern in kindness, and to found an empire upon the everlasting basis of justice and affection ! But what do men call vigour ? To let loose hussars...prime — I call this, not vigour, but the sloth of crueltg and ignorance. The vigour I love, consists in finding out wherein subjects are aggrieved, in... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...found an empire upon the everlasting basis of justice and affection ! But what do men call vigor ? To let loose hussars, and to bring up artillery, to...to cut, and push, and prime, — I call this, not vigor, but the sloth of cruelty and ignorance. The vigor I love consists in finding out wherein subjects... | |
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