Thus, perhaps at the moment the French were apotheosing an obscure demagogue, the celebrated Condorcet expired, through the neglect of a gaoler; and now, the coarse and ferocious Marat, and the more refined, yet more pernicious, philosopher, are both involved in one common obloquy.

Then there arises the great demagogue, who heads a party, having probably been disappointed in early life,that is, in his first endeavours on board the ship.

For ages it has provided the state with able officers; nor is its least merit that of converting a dangerous demagogue into a quiet student.

'Silence gives consent,' cried the demagogues, who forgot they had no right to put their questions!

Then he tells how Aesop defended a demagogue by the fable of the fox caught in the cleft of a rock.

In thirteen immortal philippicssome of which, however, were merely written and never delivered, after the fashion of Demosthenes, with whom as an orator and a patriot he can alone be comparedhe denounced the unprincipled demagogue and general with every offensive epithet the language afforded,unveiling his designs, exposing his forgeries, and proving his crimes.

There had been extensive agricultural distress in England, which had shown itself in an outbreak of new crimes, the burning of ricks in the farm-yards, and the destruction of machinery, to which the peasantry were persuaded by designing demagogues to attribute the scarcity of employment.

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.

Hembyse having renewed his attempts against the public peace at Ghent, the Prince of Orange repaired to that place, re-established order, frightened the inveterate demagogue into secret flight, and Flanders was once more restored to tranquillity.

He knew that for the true reconstruction of the country something more was needed than bayonets and bullets, or the schemes of selfish politicians or plotting demagogues.

His officers, however, full of indignation, easily quelled the spirit of mutiny; and, when subordination was restored, proposed to the general to follow up his success by marching at once back into the city and seizing the Jacobin demagogues who had caused the riot.

It would not suit usto put the matter on its lowest groundto become demagogues.

He was as eager to talk to Hume the sceptic, or Wilkes the demagogue, as to the orthodox Tory, Johnson; and, if repelled, it was from no deficiency in daring.