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... The Oriental Herald - Page 3021824Full view - About this book
| Asia - 1820 - 664 pages
...must be wise to render them intellicihle throughout an empire our hold on which is opinion. Finther, it is salutary for supreme authority, even when its...scrutiny : while conscious of rectitude, that authority cm lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general coinmi'nt. On the contrary, it acquires... | |
| Leicester Stanhope Earl of Harrington - Censorship - 1823 - 218 pages
...guided in the step by a positive and well-weighed policy. If our motives of action are worthy, it must be wise to render them intelligible throughout an...when its intentions are most pure, to look to the controul of Public Scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 662 pages
...guided in the step by a positive and well-weighed policy. If our motives of action are worthy, it must be wise to render them intelligible throughout an...public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authoriiy can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment. On the contrary, it... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1824 - 658 pages
...guided in the step by a positive and well-weighed policy. If our motives of action are worthy, it must be wise to render them intelligible throughout an...public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authoriiy can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment, un the contrary, it... | |
| Asia - 1824 - 724 pages
...guided in the step by a positive and well-weighed policy. If our motives of action are worthy, it must be wise to render them intelligible throughout an...when its intentions are most pure, to look to the controul of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 590 pages
...the following brief extract, could possibly warrant : ' If our motives of action are worthy, it must be wise to render * them intelligible throughout an...it is salutary for supreme authority, even when its inten' tions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny ; ' while conscious of rectitude,... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 782 pages
...but a year or two before had heard it proclaimed by their Chief, in the seat of government, that " It is salutary for Supreme Authority, even when its...most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny ; " now state that " they were perfectly sensible of the practical objection which attends these irregular... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 640 pages
...guided in the siep by a positive and well weighed policy. If our motives of action are worthy, it must be wise to render them intelligible throughout an empire, our hold on which is opinion." Here, then, is a distinct admission, that there was no necettity whatever, for the '.'narrowing" which... | |
| English literature - 1825 - 542 pages
..." It is salutary," says lord Hastings, and he speaks of, and in, India, " for the supreme authority to look to the control of public scrutiny ; while,...that authority can lose nothing of its strength by exposure to general comment ; on the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force." This it... | |
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