Both have great power--the flatterer with the tyrant, the demagogue with democracies of the kind which we are describing.
The decrees of the Demos correspond to the edicts of the tyrant, and the demagogue is to the one what the flatterer is to the other.
However, the excesses of the demagogue had aroused against him the feeling of all the better class of the inhabitants.
In vain he gesticulated and made motions imploring them to hear him, but all was useless, and the courage of the demagogue deserted him and he burst into tears at the prospect of death.
The wily prelate then, finding the great demagogue was still followed by dangerous and threatening crowds, appointed two burgesses and other spies to watch Fitzosbert, and, when it was possible, to apprehend him.
As the deserted demagogue was dragged forth through the fire and smoke, still loth to yield, a son of the burgess whom he had stricken dead ran forward and stabbed him in the side.
We shall so often meet this unscrupulous demagogue about London, that we will not dwell upon him here at much length.
Whoever is either too remiss or too strict is no more a king or a governor, but either a demagogue or a despot, and so becomes either odious or contemptible to his subjects.
How can you, who took no pains to instruct them, blame them for giving ear to the demagogue who took pains to delude them?
Both the demagogue and his audience felt a craving for the daily stimulant.
It is true that in Scotland no demagoguecan obtain applause and riches by slandering and reviling the English people.
The oldest man living does not remember to have heard any demagogue breathe a wish for separation.
I should be glad to know, if there were now an attempt made to impose a tax on corn, what demagogue would be able to bring a crowd of working men to hold up their hands in favour of such a tax.
And yet the propagator of this infamous Abolition doctrine of a "White Basis" representation--this demagogue who arrays the poor against slaveholders, is the man for the ultra guardians of the slave interests of the South!
The history of this Athenian demagogueis in Thucydides, ii.
Cleon the Demagogue was a currier originally by trade.
Orator Hunt=, the great demagogue in the time of the Wellington and Peel administration.
The people were a mere rabble, prompt to follow the demagogue who flattered their vanity, prompter still to desert him in the hour of danger.
The words Jew and demagogue and baroness, quoted in the letter, were old missiles hurling again at him.
The Philistines revenged themselves on an old aristocratic Radical and a Jew demagogue with the weapon that scandal hands to virtue.
Well, you are conversing with a demagogue, an avowed one: a demagogue and a Jew.
He was an eminent professor, a middleaged, grave and honourable man, not ignorant that her family entertained views opposed to the pretensions of such a man as the demagogue and Jew.
There was no chance of her being allowed to enter houses where this 'rageing demagogue and popular buffoon' was a guest; his name was banished from her hearing, so she was compelled to have recourse to Marko.
And the trick by which the demagogue defeats Coriolanus is played on him in his turn by his inferiors.
In these early years the future statesman seems to have been a demagogue of the usual type, who sought through the favor of the people a rapid rise to power.
In one comedy Aristophanes attacks the demagogue Cleon, who was prominent in Athenian politics after the death of Pericles.
But Cicero determined to oppose the demagogue Tribune by proving himself to the people to be more of a demagogue than he.
All this made him a demagogue in the same high sense in which Pericles, Demosthenes, John Pym, Patrick Henry were demagogues.
Instead of these you will have a horde of selfish and obscure mediocrities, incapable of anything but mischief, and that mischief devised and regulated by the raging demagogue of the hour.
On the other hand, it is but one step that separates the demagogueand the sovereign.
The Demagogue and Lady Phayre "Think of Locke's clever books.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne At the Gate of Samaria A Study in Shadows Simon the Jester Where Love Is Derelicts The Demagogue and Lady Phayre The Beloved Vagabond The White Dove The Usurper Septimus Idols The Glory of Clementina 12mo.
Personally, Rochefort is not qualified to be a demagogue in the sense that Danton was a demagogue, and he can make no pretension to be a revolutionary leader of a high class.
They can perceive easily enough that he is remarkable for just those intellectual qualities which the conventionaldemagogue never has.
In times more ripe for him, he would have been a mighty demagogue and a successful regenerator.
But the whole account of this famous demagogue in Wotton is, it must be owned, full of historical mistakes.
Even in England, where you have some common-sense, a demagogue has only to shout loud enough and long enough to find some backing in the very class he is shouting at.
The demagogue carries the amateurs of emotion with him.
No sooner was this done, than the indefatigabledemagogue began his political reforms.
Each man saw Vetch differently, and was this because each man saw in the great demagogue only the particular virtue or vice for which he was looking, the reflection of personal preferences or aversions?
This the young man admitted candidly in the very moment when he told himself that he detested the demagogue and all his works.
My dear Corinna, the demagogue is the one everlasting and unalterable American institution.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demagogue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
