 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 550 pages
...disposition, the cry of a plot all on a sudden struck their ears : They were wakened from their slumber ; and, like men affrighted and in the dark, took every figure...and common humanity, lost all influence over them. From this disposition of men's minds we are to account for the progress of the PoPISH PLoT, and the... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 576 pages
...The terror of each man be- ' 7^7"""' came the source of terror to another. And an ,uni- ! 7 versa! panic being diffused, 'reason, and argument, and common...and common humanity, lost all influence over them. From this disposition of men's minds we are to account for the progress of the POPISH PLOT, ;md the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 718 pages
...' They were wakened from their slumber; ' and, like men affrighted in the dark, took ' every shadow for a spectre. The terror ' of each man became the...common humanity ' lost all influence over them.'" These generally prevailing apprehensions very naturally led to measures, which might have produced... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1820 - 502 pages
...among the people, and operated iu defiance o( common sense and demonstration." Hume writes, that " an universal panic being diffused, reason and argument,...sense and common humanity, lost all influence over the people. From this disposition sof men's minds we are to account for the progress and credit of... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1814 - 602 pages
...ears. They were wakened from their slumber ; and, like men affrighted in the dark, took every shadow for a spectre. The terror of each man became the source...and common humanity, lost all influence over them.' " These generally prevailing apprehensions very naturally led to measures •which might have produced... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1814 - 596 pages
...wakened from their slumber ; and, like men affrighted in the dark, took every shadow for a spectre. Ihe terror of each man became the source of terror to...and common humanity, lost all influence over them.'" These generally prevailing apprehensions very naturally led to measures which might have produced the... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 366 pages
...all on a sudden struck their ears : they were wakened from their slumber ; and like men affrightened and in the dark, took every figure for a spectre....and common humanity, lost all influence over them. From this disposition of men's minds we are to account for the progress of the POPISH PLOT, and the... | |
 | English poetry - 1823 - 804 pages
...to seize on the fears and apprehensions of a people jealous to an extraordinary degree, and ali veto every suspicion. The cry of a plot, all on a sudden,...and common humanity, lost all influence over them. As it was so much the custom to refer to the firm and efficient manner in which their ancestors had... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 478 pages
...took every figure for a spectre. The terror of each man became the source of terror to another ; and a universal panic being diffused, reason, and argument,...and common humanity, lost all influence over them. From this disposition of men's minds we are to account for the progress of the POPISH PI.OT, and the... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 434 pages
...took every figure for a spectre. The terror of each man became the source of terror to another. And a universal panic being diffused, reason, and argument,...and common humanity, lost all influence over them. From this disposition of men's minds we are to account for the progress of the POPISH PLOT, and the... | |
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While in this timorous, jealous disposition, the cry of a plot all on a sudden struck their ears : they were wakened from their slumber ; and like men affrightened and in the dark, took every figure for a spectre. The terror of each man became the source... 
