 The cause of all these evils was the love of power, originating in avarice and ambition, and the party-spirit which is engendered by them when men are fairly embarked in a contest. For the leaders on either side used specious names, the one party professing...  Transactions of the Royal Historical Society - Page 10by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1893Full view - About this book
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1884 - 348 pages
...originating in avarice and ambi1ion, and the party spirit which is engendered by them when men were fairly embarked in a contest. For the leaders on either...hand, they were eager to satiate the impatience of party spirit. Neither faction cared for religion ; but any fair pretense which succeeded in effecting... | |
 | William Warde Fowler - 1893 - 360 pages
...these were surpassed by the magnitude of their revenges, which they pursued to the very! uttermost, neither party observing any definite limits either!...hand, they were eager to satiate the impatience of party- y spirit. . . . And the citizens who were of neither party fell cf \\ prey to both; either they... | |
 | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - 1896 - 298 pages
...On the other hand, he who plotted from the first to have nothing to do with plots was a breaker-up of parties and a poltroon who was afraid of the enemy....hand, they were eager to satiate the impatience of party spirit. Neither faction cared for religion; but any fair pretence which succeeeded in effectng... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1896 - 360 pages
...power, origina- The evils of ting in avarice and ambition, and the party spirit which is party spirit, engendered by them when men are fairly embarked in...hand, they were eager to satiate the impatience of party spirit. Neither faction cared for religion ; but any fair pretense which succeeded in effecting... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1896 - 358 pages
...origina- The evils of ting in avarice and ambition, and the party spirit which is Party sP'ritengendered by them when men are fairly embarked in a contest....hand, they were eager to satiate the impatience of party spirit. Neither faction cared for religion ; but any fair pretense which succeeded in effecting... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1896 - 356 pages
...constitutional equality of the many, the other the wisdom of an aristocracy, while they made the publig interests, to which in name they were devoted, in...hand, they were eager to satiate the impatience of party spirit. Neither faction cared for religion ; but any fair pretense which succeeded in effecting... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 646 pages
...of all these evils was the love of power originating in avarice and ambition, and the party spirit which is engendered by them when men are fairly embarked...hand, they were eager to satiate the impatience of party spirit. Neither faction cared for religion; but any fair pretense which succeeded in effecting... | |
 | William Prall - 1900 - 268 pages
...in reality their prize. Striving in every way to overcome each other, . . . neither party observed any definite limits, either of justice or public expediency, but both alike made the caprice of the moment their law. Either by the help of an unrighteous sentence, or grasping... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 450 pages
...of all these evils was the love of power originating in avarice and ambition, and the party spirit which is engendered by them when men are fairly embarked...hand, they were eager to satiate the impatience of party spirit. Neither faction cared for religion; but any fair pretence which succeeded in effecting... | |
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