 | 1860 - 534 pages
...towards his audience. He is sure, if they only knew what he knows, they would feel as he feels, and believe as he believes. And by this he conquers. This...confidence, call it as we will, is an extreme power in human affairs. One croyant, said the Frenchman, is a greater power than fifty incrSdules. In the composition... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 528 pages
...towards his audience. He is sure, if they only knew what he knows, they would feel as he feels, and believe as he believes. And by this he conquers. This...confidence, call it as we will, is an extreme power in human affairs. One croyant, said the Frenchman, is a greater power than fifty incredules. In the composition... | |
 | Theology - 1874 - 404 pages
...audience. He is sure, if they only knew what he knows, they would feel as he feels, and believe as lie believes. And by this he conquers. This living faith,...confidence, call it as we will, is an extreme power in human affairs. One croyant, said the Frenchman, is a greater power than fifty incredules. In the composition... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Literary Criticism - 1881 - 388 pages
...towards his audience. He is sure, if they only knew what he knows, they would feel as he feels, and believe as he believes. And by this he conquers. This...confidence, call it as we will, is an extreme power in human affairs. One croyant, said the Frenchman, is a greater power than fifty incr$dules. In the composition... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1881 - 390 pages
...towards his audience. He is sure, if they only knew what he knows, they would feel as he feels, and believe as he believes. And by this he conquers. This...confidence, call it as we will, is an extreme power in human affairs. One croyant, said the Frenchman, is a greater power than fifty incr$dules. In the composition... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Statesmen - 1889 - 414 pages
...towards his audience. He is sure, if they only knew what he knows, they would feel as he feels, and believe as he believes. And by this he conquers. This...confidence, call it as we will, is an extreme power in human affairs. One croyant, said the Frenchman, is a greater power than fifty incredules. In the composition... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 466 pages
...said, towards his audience; he is sure if they only knew what he knows, they would feel as he feels and believe as he believes : and by this he conquers....call it as we will — is an extreme power in human affairs : one croyant, said the Frenchman, is a greater power than fifty incredules ; in the composition... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 466 pages
...said, towards his audience; he is sure if they only knew what he knows, they would feel as he feels and believe as he believes : and by this he conquers....— call it as we will — is an extreme power in *Wfndham, Speech on the Poor Laws Bill, April 24, 1807. human affairs : one croyant, said the Frenchman,... | |
 | American literature - 1898 - 604 pages
...towards his audience ; he is sure if they only knew what he knows, they would feel as he feels and believe as he believes : and by this he conquers....call it as we will — is an extreme power in human affairs : one croyant, said the Frenchman, is a greater power than fifty incrédules; in the composition... | |
 | C. E. Heisch - Authorship - 1905 - 148 pages
...it with others. " He is sure that if they only knew what he knows, they would feel as he feels, and believe as he believes. And by this, he conquers....faith, this enthusiasm, this confidence, call it as we-will, is an extreme power in human affairs." We have a good example of this force in the writings... | |
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... thinks must convert the incredulous, an illustration which he hopes will drive his meaning even into the heads of the stolid. At any rate, he will try. He has a nature, as Coleridge might have said, towards his audience. He is sure, if they only knew... 
