'Buonaparte's Appeal to the British Nation', The Quarterly Review (January 1817), p. 511
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Impressed as we are with a deep sentiment of the consistency and strength which the revolutionary party have obtained, and are hourly increasing throughout Europe, we shall not fail to recur to the subject whenever we see the press of this country called in aid of the schemes of Buonaparte, or of Buonaparte's auxiliaries, and we shall contribute our mite to the resolution of that famous problem, whether, in a free press, the force of reason and truth, and the principles of order, good morals and true religion, are a match for the adroitness and the audacity of the philosophers of the Revolution and their disciples—the loose in morals, the factious in politics—the preachers of liberty, the practisers of despotism.

— John Wilson Croker

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Impressed as we are with a deep sentiment of the consistency and strength which the revolutionary party have obtained, and are hourly increasing throughout Europe, we shall not fail to recur to the subject whenever we see the press of this country called in aid of the schemes of Buonaparte, or of Buonaparte's auxiliaries, and we shall contribute our mite to the resolution of that famous problem, whether, in a free press, the force of reason and truth, and the principles of order, good morals and true religion, are a match for the adroitness and the audacity of the philosophers of the Revolution and their disciples—the loose in morals, the factious in politics—the preachers of liberty, the practisers of despotism." in the context of "'Buonaparte's Appeal to the British Nation', The Quarterly Review (January 1817), p. 511" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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John Wilson Croker

About John Wilson Croker

John Wilson Croker (20 December 178010 August 1857) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and author.