"Mobbish" Quotes from Famous Books
... from affairs. In this circle the body is in a manner annihilated; and so little means have they of any weighty exertion either to control or to support the crown, that, if they at all interfere, it is only by abetting desperate and mobbish insurrections, like that at Madrid, which drove Squillace from his place. Florida Blanca is a creature of office, and has little connection and no ... — The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |