 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...Popes 3nd Kings had given them a monopoly of the public mstrnction ; and the spirit of monopolifts is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more...an error. We may scarcely hope that any reformation \vill be a voluntary act ; and se deeply vol. a, E £ are they rooted in law and prejudice, that even"... | |
 | 1831 - 576 pages
...' The spirit of monopolists,' to borrow the just and expressive language of Gibbon, ' is nar' row, lazy, and oppressive. Their work is more costly and...a rival, and below the confession ' of an error.' Even though the directors of a great association like the East India Company, were disposed to extend... | |
 | 1815 - 564 pages
...eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, are admit ted with slow and sullen reluctance into these proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the confession of an error; v,e may scarcely hope that any reformation will be a voluntary act, and so deeply are they rooted in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...competition :: freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporation«, above the fear of a rival, and below the confession of an error. We may scarcely beft that any reformation will be a voluntary act ; and so deeply are they rooted in the <i<* and prejudice,... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 720 pages
...and less productive than that of independant artists; and the new improvements, so eagerly grasped hy the competition of freedom, are admitted, with slow...the fear of a rival and below the confession of an error."—P. 35. After reading the foregoing passages, shall I be told that Mr. Gibbon had not in view... | |
 | 1840 - 432 pages
...still remains in the hands of the clergy, an order of men whose manners are remote from the present world, and whose eyes are dazzled by the light of...of a rival, and below the confession of an error. — It might at least be expected, that an ecclesiastical school should inculcate the orthodox principles... | |
 | William Edward Hearn - 1863 - 500 pages
...that of independent artists and the new * Bastiat's Harmonics, p. 287. improvements so eagerly graeped by the competition of freedom are admitted with slow...of a rival and below the confession of an error." But the unfailing Nemesis of outraged nature is sure to overtake all such breaches of her laws. Special... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...better calculated to effect their object, and to extinguish every germ of future improvement ! —567. THE spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive...of a rival, and below the confession of an error. — Gibbon, 5S5. A MAN must be in tolerably comfortable circumstances before he is at all likely to... | |
 | A. Elley Finch - 1873 - 168 pages
...of the middle ages. . . . New improvements are admitted with slow and. sullen reluctance- in these proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the confession of an error. ... So deeply are they rooted in law and prejudice, that gradually deserting the darkness of antiquity... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 pages
...still remains in the hands of the clergy, an order of men whose manners are remote from the present world, and whose eyes are dazzled by the light of...hope that any reformation will be a voluntary act 5 and so deeply are they rooted in law and prejudice, that even the omnipotence of Parliament would... | |
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... the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more costly and less productive than that of independent artists ; and the new improvements so eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom are admitted with slow and sullen... 
