 | David Hume - 1882
...inquirer. There are indeed three events in our history, which may be regarded as touchstones of party-men. An English whig, who asserts the reality of the Popish...Jacobite, who maintains the innocence of Queen Mary, must be considered as men beyond th» teach of argument or reason, and must be left to their prejudices.... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1882 - 144 páginas
...And Mr. Hume has expressed himself with the most dogmatical decision, in the following language : ' An English Whig, who asserts the reality of the Popish...plot ; an Irish Catholic, who denies the massacre of 1641 ; and a Scotch Jacobite, who maintains the innocence of Queen Mary; must be considered as men... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1882 - 144 páginas
...And Mr. Hume has expressed himself with the most dogmatical decision, in the following language: ' An English Whig, who asserts the reality of the Popish plot; an Irish Catholic, who denies the massacre of 1641; and a Scotch Jacobite, who maintains the innocence of Queen Mary; must be considered as men... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883
...is clearly, gentlemen, of the first importance, in enabling 1 Hume is profoundly contemptuous, — "An English Whig who asserts the reality of the Popish...denies the massacre in 1641 ; and a Scotch Jacobite who mantains the innocence of Queen Mary, must be considered as men beyond the reach of argument or reason."... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 331 páginas
...is clearly, gentlemen, of the first importance, in enabling 1 Hume is profoundly contemptuous,—"An English Whig who asserts the reality of the Popish...denies the massacre in 1641 ; and a Scotch Jacobite who man tains the innocence of Queen Mary, must be considered as men beyond the reach of argument or reason."... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1884
...Hume somewhere says, " An English Whig who asserts the reality of the Popish plot under Charles II., an Irish Catholic who denies the massacre in 1641,...Jacobite who maintains the innocence of Queen Mary, must be considered as men beyond the reach of argument or reason, and must be left to their prejudices."... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1886 - 218 páginas
...Hume says : ' There are three events in our history which may be regarded as touchstones of party men. An English Whig who asserts the reality of the Popish Plot, an Irish Catholic who denies the massacre of 1641, and a Scotch Jacobite who maintains the innocence of Queen Mary, must be considered as men... | |
 | David Hume - 1888 - 386 páginas
...'There are, indeed, three events in our history which may be regarded as touchstones of party-men. An English Whig, who asserts the reality of the Popish Plot, an Irish Catholic, who dmies the massacre in 1641, and a Scotch Jacobite, who maintains the innocence of Queen Mary, must... | |
 | 1897
...that there are three descriptions of persons who must be considered beyond the reach of argument ... an English Whig, who asserts the reality of the '...and a Scotch Jacobite who maintains the innocence of Mary Queen of Scots. ..." "As to the alleged Irish massacre in 1641, we may fairly deny it on the ground... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902
...and literature. The critical keenness of his mind is admirably shown in the oft-quoted remark that y Thomas Flatman's ode, quoted at Vol. I. p. 783....Pope's 'Iliad.' The troops exulting sat in order must be considered as men beyond the reach of argument or reason, and must be left to their prejudices.'... | |
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An English Whig, who asserts the reality of the popish plot, an Irish Catholic, who denies the massacre in 1641, and a Scotch Jacobite, who maintains the innocence of Queen Mary, must be considered as men beyond the reach of argument or reason, and must... 
