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  • Every delinquency would produce factious views, partiality, and oppression by the majority in the national congress.†   (source)
  • Factious leaders may kindle a flame within their States, while not able to spread a conflagration through the other States.†   (source)
  • Factious Passions: Effect on Union†   (source)
  • All single, large assemblies tend to give in to sudden, violent passions; they can be seduced by factious leaders into extreme and harmful resolutions.†   (source)
  • Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary.†   (source)
  • Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse.†   (source)
  • They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self-controlled, only obtuse; not self-respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all—liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls.†   (source)
  • It can be little doubted that, if the State of Rhode Island was separated from the Confederacy and left to itself, the insecurity of right under the popular form of government within such narrow limits would be displayed by such reiterated oppressions of the factious majorities, that some power altogether independent of the people would soon be called for by the voice of the very factions whose misrule had proved the necessity of it.†   (source)
  • An unhappy prince am I. My father, King Henry, had faithful servants—He had but to say that he was plagued with a factious priest, and the blood of Thomas-a-Becket, saint though he was, stained the steps of his own altar.†   (source)
  • Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the presence of the porter of a factious person.†   (source)
  • Be factious for redress of all these griefs;   (source)
    factious = active in sub-group infighting
  • Factious and rich, bold at the council board, But cautious in the field, he shunn'd the sword; A close caballer, and tongue-valiant lord.†   (source)
  • In other part the sceptered heralds call
    To council, in the city-gates; anon
    Gray-headed men and grave, with warriours mixed,
    Assemble, and harangues are heard; but soon,
    In factious opposition; till at last,
    Of middle age one rising, eminent
    In wise deport, spake much of right and wrong,
    Of justice, or religion, truth, and peace,
    And judgement from above: him old and young
    Exploded, and had seized with violent hands,
    Had not a cloud descending snatched him thence
    Unseen amid the throng: so violence
    Proceeded, and oppression, and sword-law,
    Through all the plain, and refuge none was found.†   (source)
  • Madam, yourself is not exempt from this;— Nor you, son Dorset;—Buckingham, nor you;— You have been factious one against the other.†   (source)
  • These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.†   (source)
  • on a great part of mankind may be made lighter, but they can never be quite removed; for if laws were made to determine at how great an extent in soil, and at how much money, every man must stop—to limit the prince, that he might not grow too great; and to restrain the people, that they might not become too insolent—and that none might factiously aspire to public employments, which ought neither to be sold nor made burdensome by a great expense, since otherwise those that serve in them would be tempted to reimburse themselves by cheats and violence, and it would become necessary to find out rich men for undergoing those employments, which ought rather to be trusted to the wise.†   (source)
  • In all which time you and your husband Grey Were factious for the house of Lancaster;— And, Rivers, so were you: was not your husband In Margaret's battle at Saint Albans slain?†   (source)
  • While thus their factious minds with fury burn, The legates from th' Aetolian prince return: Sad news they bring, that, after all the cost And care employ'd, their embassy is lost; That Diomedes refus'd his aid in war, Unmov'd with presents, and as deaf to pray'r.†   (source)
  • Returned from Babylon by leave of kings
    Their lords, whom God disposed, the house of God
    They first re-edify; and for a while
    In mean estate live moderate; till, grown
    In wealth and multitude, factious they grow;
    But first among the priests dissention springs,
    Men who attend the altar, and should most
    Endeavour peace: their strife pollution brings
    Upon the temple itself: at last they seise
    The scepter, and regard not David's sons;
    Then lose it to a stranger, that the true
    Anointed King Messiah might be born
    Barred of his right†   (source)
  • The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States.†   (source)
  • The success of it would require not merely a factious majority in the legislature, but the concurrence of the courts of justice and of the body of the people.†   (source)
  • A jarring murmur fill'd the factious court: As, when a torrent rolls with rapid force, And dashes o'er the stones that stop the course, The flood, constrain'd within a scanty space, Roars horrible along th' uneasy race; White foam in gath'ring eddies floats around; The rocky shores rebellow to the sound.†   (source)
  • Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.†   (source)
  • The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.†   (source)
  • It is easy to see that this problem alone, as often as it should occur, would open a wide field for the exercise of factious views, of partiality, and of oppression, in the majority that happened to prevail in the national council.†   (source)
  • It is not difficult to conceive that this characteristic right of freedom may, in certain turbulent and factious seasons, be violated, in respect to a particular class of citizens, by a victorious and overbearing majority; but that so fundamental a privilege, in a country so situated and enlightened, should be invaded to the prejudice of the great mass of the people, by the deliberate policy of the government, without occasioning a popular revolution, is altogether inconceivable and incredible.†   (source)
  • The other point of difference is, the greater number of citizens and extent of territory which may be brought within the compass of republican than of democratic government; and it is this circumstance principally which renders factious combinations less to be dreaded in the former than in the latter.†   (source)
  • The division of them between the two branches of the legislature, assigning to one the right of accusing, to the other the right of judging, avoids the inconvenience of making the same persons both accusers and judges; and guards against the danger of persecution, from the prevalency of a factious spirit in either of those branches.†   (source)
  • It can be little doubted that if the State of Rhode Island was separated from the Confederacy and left to itself, the insecurity of rights under the popular form of government within such narrow limits would be displayed by such reiterated oppressions of factious majorities that some power altogether independent of the people would soon be called for by the voice of the very factions whose misrule had proved the necessity of it.†   (source)
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