Crossword-Solution: UNWISEST 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

War not to be spoken of, except on compulsion, in the most voluminous History! It was the unwisest of wars, we should say, and in practice probably the contemptiblest; if there were not one other Swedish War coming, which vies with it in these particulars, of which we shall be obliged to speak, more or less, at a future stage.

All the energies and theories of industrial progress, of science, and of constant intellectual development; in a word, all that is most characteristic of 'the spirit of the Nineteenth Century,' is enlisted on the one side; all that is fading out and wearing away, with all that characterizes the unwisest conservatism has taken its last stand on the other.

Now you may always count upon this failing in a cautious man, that at a crisis he is like to do the unwisest thing that offers.

The doctrines of liberty and equality, which had been so dear to the Philosophers and the Encyclopaedists, were now being practically applied across the Atlantic, and the growth of their success was watched by the eager eyes of the wisest and the unwisest thinkers in France.

See also what persons complain upon them, whether they be not of the basest, the unwisest, and the most faithless kind of people.