 | Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1847 - 336 pages
...solution. Enunciating second-hand, with characteristic precipitation, some big principle in vogue, as if he were a discoverer, he invariably shrank from...into some second-rate measure recommended with all the artifice of an impenetrable ambiguity. Beginning with the second Reformation, which was a little... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1847 - 332 pages
...second-hand, with characteristic precipitation, some big principle in vogue, as if he were a discoverer, be invariably shrank from its subsequent application,...into some second-rate measure recommended with all the artifice of an impenetrable ambiguity. 80 Beginning with the second Reformation, which was a little... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1847 - 432 pages
...solution. Enunciating second-hand, with characteristic precipitation, some big principle in vogue, as if he were a discoverer, he invariably shrank from...in the same catastrophe — a compromise. Abstract principle with him ever ended in concrete expediency. The aggregate of circumstances outweighed the... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1847 - 678 pages
...solution. Enunciating second hand, with characteristic precipitation, some big principle in vogue, as if he were a discoverer, he invariably shrank from...found it might be unpopular and inconvenient. All Ms quandaries terminated in the same catastrophe— a compromise. Abstract principles with him ever... | |
 | 1854 - 624 pages
...characteristic precipitation some big principle in vogue as if he were a discoverer, he invariably shrunk from its subsequent application the moment that he found it might be unpopular or inconvenient. All his quandaries terminated in the same catastrophe, a compromise. Abstract principles... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1871 - 508 pages
...solution. Enunciating second-hand, with characteristic precipitation, some big principle in vogue, as if he were a discoverer, he invariably shrank from...into some second-rate measure recommended with all the artifice of an impenetrable ambiguity. Beginning with the second Reformation, which was a little... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1871 - 504 pages
...solution. Enunciating second-hand, with characteristic precipitation, some big principle in vogue, as if he were a discoverer, he invariably shrank from...into some second-rate measure recommended with all the artifice of an impenetrable ambiguity. Beginning with the second Reformation, which was a little... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 506 pages
...solution. Enunciating second-hand, with characteristic precipitation, some big principle in vogue, as if he were a discoverer, he invariably shrank from...into some second-rate measure recommended with all the artifice of an impenetrable ambiguity. Beginning with the second Reformation, which was a little... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 408 pages
...single solution. Enunciating secondhand, with characteristic precipitation, some big principle in vogue, as if he were a discoverer, he invariably shrank from...inconvenient. All his quandaries terminated in the same catastrophe—a compromise. Abstract principles with him ever ended in concrete expediency. The aggregate... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1900 - 512 pages
...solution. Enunciating second-haml, with characteristic precipitation, some big principle in vogue, as if he were a discoverer, he invariably shrank from...application, the moment that he found it might be nnp"pu!ar and inconvenient. All his quandaries terminated in the same catastrophe ; a compromise. Abstract... | |
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... illogical. The oracle was always dark. Placed in a high post in an age of political analysis, the bustling intermeddler was unable to supply society with a single solution. Enunciating second-hand, with characteristic precipitation, some big principle... 
