 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1912 - 420 pagina’s
...but the Devil; or so at least abhor any thing, but that we might come to composition. If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn...reasonable creatures of God; but confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra : it is no breach of Charity to call... | |
 | Hanford Lennox Gordon - 1913 - 460 pagina’s
...Massinger. The multitude is the most unstable of all things, and the most senseless. — Demosthenes. That great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion —...the Multitude, that numerous piece of monstrosity. — Sir Thomas Browne. The unstable multitude is cleft into opposite courses. —Virgil. Music. Music... | |
 | Henry Dodge Estabrook - 1914 - 380 pagina’s
...mob, for all mobs are majorities to begin with. Sir Thomas Browne, in his " Religio Medici," calls the multitude, " that numerous piece of monstrosity...reasonable creatures of God, but confused together, make but one great beast and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra: it is no breach of charity to call... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1921 - 220 pagina’s
...but the Devil, or so at least abhor anything, but that we might come to composition. If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn...reasonable creatures of God ; but confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra. It is no breach of charity to call... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1921 - 220 pagina’s
...but the Devil, or so at least abhor anything, but that we might come to composition. If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, i* is that great enemy of Reason, Virtue, and Religion, the Multitude ; that numerous piece of monstrosity... | |
 | 1922 - 656 pagina’s
...detests nothing but the Devil. If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn or laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue...reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra. It is no breach of charity to call... | |
 | Charles Platt - 1922 - 302 pagina’s
...emotional and dangerous. The crowd is not, indeed, always so bad as old Thomas Browne describes it — "that great enemy of Reason, Virtue and Religion,...reasonable creatures of God : but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra" — it is not always so bad as this,... | |
 | 1922 - 1522 pagina’s
...country ; I am in England everywhere and under any meridian.' The one object that excites his derision is the multitude, 'that numerous piece of monstrosity,...reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.' For the sorrows of others he has... | |
 | Paul Jordan-Smith - 1924 - 300 pagina’s
...those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, vertue and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of...reasonable creatures of God; but confused together, make but one great Beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra. . . . Neither in the name of multitude,... | |
 | Paul Jordan-Smith - 1924 - 304 pagina’s
...the whimsicalities of the individual soul. But the multitude everywhere he scorns : "If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, vertue and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which taken asunder, seem men,... | |
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If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of... 
