 The average man will not bear this. He is a cool, common person, with a considerate air, with figures in his mind, with his own business to attend to, with a set of ordinary opinions arising from and suited to ordinary life. He can't bear novelty or originalities....  The Works of Walter Bagehot ... - Page 3by Walter Bagehot - 1891Full view - About this book
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...a single decision is not absolute, where argument has an office. The essence of the " gouvernement des avocats," as the Emperor Nicholas called it, is...observes : " Let the highest intellect able to write epies try to write such a leader for the morning newspapers, it cannot do it ; the highest intellect... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...says: " Sir, I never heard such a thing before in my life;" and he thinks this a reductio ad abaurdum. You may see his taste by the reading of which he approves....Times ? No wonder that the average man— that any one—believes in it. As Carlyle observes : " Let the highest intellect able to write epics try to... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1881 - 390 pages
...which a single decision is not absolute, where argument has an office. The essence of the gouvernement des avocats, as the Emperor Nicholas called it, is...newspapers, it cannot do it ; the highest intellect will fail.' But did you ever see anything there you had never seen before ? Out of the million articles... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1881 - 388 pages
...which a single decision is not absolute, where argument has an office. The essence of the gouvernement des avocats, as the Emperor Nicholas called it, is...newspapers, it cannot do it ; the highest intellect will fail.' But did you ever see anything there you had never seen before ? Out of the million articles... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1889 - 494 pages
...so many persons. The appeal is not to the solitary decision of a single statesman ; not to Eichelieu or Nesselrode alone in his closet ; but to the jangled...the average man — that any one — believes in it. AB Carlyle observes : ' Let the highest intellect able to write epics try to write such a leader for... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1889 - 412 pages
...originalities. He says : ' Sir, I never heard such a thing before in my life ; ' and he thinks this is a reductio ad absurdum. You may see his taste by the...newspapers, it cannot do it ; the highest intellect will fail.' But did you ever see anything there you had never seen before ? Out of the million articles... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1893 - 550 pages
...a single decision is not absolute, where argument has an office. The essence of the ' gouvernement des avocats,' as the Emperor Nicholas called it, is...industry than the Times ? No wonder that the average man—that any one—believes in it. As Carlyle observes: ' Let the highest intellect able to write... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1895 - 418 pages
...originalities. He says : " Sir, I never heard such a thing before in my life " ; and he thinks this is a reductio ad absurdum. You may see his taste by the...newspapers, it cannot do it; the highest intellect will fail". But did you ever see anything there you had never seen before ? Out of the million articles... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1895 - 442 pages
...originalities. He says : " Sir, I never heard such a thing before in my life " ; and he thinks this is a reductio ad absurdum. You may see his taste by the...more splendid monument of talent and industry than Thc Times ? No wonder that the average man — that any one — believes in it. As Carlyle observes... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 256 pages
...average man, and the average man he knows. He is, he explains, with his characteristic covert humor, " a cool, common person, with a considerate air, with...the average man — that any one — believes in it. ... But did you ever see anything there you had never seen before? . . . Where are the deep theories,... | |
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