If any proof were requisite of the mighty influence of party spirit, it would be found in a still stronger light in the State trials in the House of Lords.
Yet either by an extraordinary accident or by the influence of party spirit we beheld all the Peers on the Ministerial side of the House declaring Lord Melville innocent, and all those of the Opposition pronouncing him guilty.
At his death, party spirit denied to his memory the tokens of public admiration and regret, offered in that very legislature of which he had been the great light, and which, indeed, he had called into being.
Even those dignities which, in this country of party spirit, beget for the successful more of reproach than fame, had left the name of Madison without a serious stain.
Never will the world have seen such a complete overthrow of sectarianism, party spirit, unbrotherliness, religious jealousy, and religious pride.
Second objection: The collectors may be influenced by party spirit in the exercise of their discretion.
The reader will observe that I carefully refrain from quoting the representations of party spirit, and refer to facts only for evidence.
The duties were so adjusted as to embarrass commerce, and to guard the interests of a few in the North, who from patriotism, party spirit, or private interest, had established manufactures on a considerable scale.
It is revived whenever the sectional spirit of the South, or party spirit in the North, prompts individuals to depreciate the talents and character of any eminent Northern man.
The whole history of the last period sufficiently proves, that it was not so much the debased character of the nation, as party spirit, and the avarice of the great, which produced the fall of Carthage.
The legislation of Solon, like all other state reforms, was not followed by the total extinction of party spirit.
His enemies accused him and his friends of weakness, of haughtiness, of party spirit; but calumny itself never dared to couple his name with corruption.
Party spirit, so long as it is only a force which binds together a number of men of honest purposes and opinions, is a good thing, and it is by its means that just and powerful majorities are formed and guided.
Worse than slaves we should be if we allowed one breath of party spirit, one thought of party aggrandizement, to enter into the choice we are about to make.
He could not be made the passive tool of demagogue power or the automaton of party spirit.
The foulest of all pestiferous atmospheres--party spirit--could not, dare not approach his private character with its damning miasma or impute to his public action an iota of political dishonesty or impurity of motive.
No bitterness of party spirit, no abuses from their partisans and party press, could sever the patriotic and moral ties of friendship that bound them together up to time death removed them from the theatre of life.
Hippolyte Carnot, we grieve to say, is so much blinded by party spirit that he seems to reckon this dirty wickedness among his hero's titles to public esteem.
Now every subject seems laboured--for in the pedantry of party spirit no partisan will speak but in the slang or cant of his own craft.
Party spirit, in politics, ran very high about this time in London--it was in the year 1780.
The feeling of party spirit, which is caught by children as quickly as it is revealed by men, now combined to strengthen still more and to exasperate my early prepossession.
He then alluded to the misfortunes into which the British nation was thrown by the disputed succession, and the violence of party spirit in consequence.
The private life of this great statesman and magistrate was malignantly scrutinised; and tales were told about his libertinism which went on growing till they became too absurd for the credulity even of party spirit.
Pride, conscience, party spirit, were on one side; the intense love of life on the other.
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