 | Asia - 1820 - 718 pages
...intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny : while conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its...which has nothing to disguise wields the most powerful instrument that can appertain to sovereign rule. It carries with it the united reliance and effort... | |
 | Leicester Stanhope Earl of Harrington - Censorship - 1823 - 218 pages
...intentions are most pure, to look to the controul of public scrutiny ; while, conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its...exposure to general comment On the contrary, it acquires incalcu* Jahle addition offeree. "' That government which has nothing to disguise wields the most powerful... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 782 pages
...subordinate officers) to look to the control of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its...contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force." Mr. Adam says that " any one writer exercising such scrutiny on the acts of supreme authority is calculated... | |
 | Christianity - 1824 - 782 pages
...sentiments of Lord Hastings on this very topic. " While conscious of rectitude, [a just and necessary] authority can lose nothing of its strength by its...contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force." Mr. Adam's opinion is at direct variance with this : and yet Lord Hastings uttered this sentiment after... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 596 pages
...intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny : while conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its...to general comment ; on the contrary, it acquires an incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise, wields the most powerful... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 662 pages
...the acts of the Supreme Authority there. Lord Hastings'Had said, " While conscious of rectitude, that Authority can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment ; on the contrary (he added) it acquires incalculable addition of force." Here, then, that consciousness of rectitude... | |
 | Christianity - 1824 - 662 pages
...the acts of the Supreme Authority there. Lord Hastings had said, " While conscious of rectitude, that Authority can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment ; on the contrary (he added) it acquires incalculable addition of force." Here, then, that consciousness of rectitude... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 590 pages
...public scrutiny ; ' while conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its 'strength by exposure to general comment. On the contrary, it ' acquires incalculable addition of force,' &c. 1 \ • If this language does not invite the scrutiny of public opinion (applied by the agency... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1824 - 658 pages
...most pure, to look to the control' of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authoriiy can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment, un the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force. That government which has nothing to disguise,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1825 - 826 pages
...intention« are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its...has nothing to disguise, wields the most powerful instrument that can appertain to sovereign rule. It carries with it the united reliance and effort... | |
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Further, it is salutary for supreme authority, even when its intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment. On the... 
