He was one of those whom doctrinaires call demagogues, because they are impatient of servitude, love their country, and refuse to bow the knee to the caprices and vices of the great.

But, with this reservation, they follow the doctrinaires, who on their part are quite ready to press Islam into their service.

The creed of the movement, however, is similar to that promulgated by the doctrinaires of the eighteenth century: that if increasing the size of the governing body automatically increases the variety and significance of government, then only when all the people become the governing class can the collective resources and organizations of the community be consistently utilized for the common weal.

Mr. ELLIS GRIFFITHS mocked at the claim of those elegant doctrinaires to speak for British Labour, and Mr. BONAR LAW told them frankly that the Government had no intention of letting them go to Stockholm to chat with our enemies.

Villemain wrote for the "Moniteur," RoyerCollard and Guizot for the "Courier," with all the haughtiness and disdain which marked the Doctrinaire or Constitutional school; Etienne and Pagès for the "Constitutionel," ridiculing the excesses of the ultra-royalists, the pretensions of the clergy, and the follies of the court; De Genoude for the "Gazette de France," and Thiers for the "National.

The king always got rid of him as soon as he could, and much preferred Guizot, the high-priest of the Doctrinaires, whose policy was like that of Lord Aberdeen in England,peace at any price.

The extreme Left and the extreme Right called him a "Doctrinaire," and he was never popular with either of these parties.

It was not with foreign Powers that he had the greatest difficulty, but to manage the turbulent elements of internal hostilities and jealousies, and oppose the anarchic forces of doctrinaires, visionary dreamers, clerical aggressors, and socialistic incendiaries,foes alike of a stable government and of ultimate progress.

We shall have occasion to look into it in the lecture on Henry Clay, and here only mention the great debates of Jackson's time on the subject,a subject on which Congress has been debating for fifty years, and will probably be debating for fifty years to come, since the whole matter depends practically on changing circumstances, whatever may be the abstract theories of doctrinaires.

Formerly, few discussed the subject on abstract principles except college professors and doctrinaires; but it is a most momentous subject from a material point of view, and the great scale on which protection has been tried in America since the Civil War has produced a multiplicity of consequencesindustrial and economicwhich have set up wide-spread discussions of both principles and practical applications.

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Kossuth, like all English statesmen, was a historical royalist, not a doctrinaire.

The modern doctrinaires have retained the same principles.

It springs first from the good-natured character of the German people, which finds intense satisfaction in doctrinaire disputations and partisanship, but dislikes pushing things to an extreme.

It fritters itself away in fruitless bickerings and doctrinaire disputes.

There is nothing whatever in his book that would be in the least offensive to this generation, but he wrote in advance of his time and consequently roused virulent attacks, notably from his fellow-clergymen, whose doctrinaire notions upon the paternal dispensation of the world were rudely shocked.

He is reported to have said:'Only the most doctrinaire Socialists still regarded universal and direct suffrage as a fetish and as an infallible dogma.

Many weak or short-sighted men, and the doctrinaires and theoristsmost of the members of the Danville political club, for instanceannounced that they wished to ratify the Constitution, but only after it had been amended.

These Jeffersonian doctrinaires were men who at certain crises, in certain countries, might have rendered great service to the cause of liberty and humanity; but their influence in America was on the whole distinctly evil, save that, by a series of accidents, they became the especial champions of the westward extension of the nation, and in consequence were identified with a movement which was all-essential to the national well-being.

He was nothing of a visionary, nothing of a political pedant, nothing of a doctrinaire.

He sees the misty depths below, Where plain and foothills, meet, And smiles a wistful smile to know The world is at his feet; To know that England calls him back; To know that glory's path Is leading to a cul de sac In Cheltenham or Bath; To know that all he helped to found, The India of his prayers, Has now become the tilting ground Of MILL-bred doctrinaires.

If they bore a fair numerical proportion to the listeners of doctrinaires and alarmists, the repetition would be eventually resisted, with an indignation equal to the amount of literary and political damage which it had effected.

At the same time, he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker.

DOCTRINAIRES, mere theorisers, particularly on social and political questions; applied originally to a political party that arose in France in 1815, headed by Roger-Collard and represented by Guizot, which stood up for a constitutional government that should steer clear of acknowledging the divine right of kinghood on the one hand and the divine right of democracy on the other.

It was because the French were so doctrinaire, so tyrannicalso fond of managing for managing's sake.