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... give you . I have returned with a small independ- ence , but still an independence . All my tastes and wishes lead me to prefer literature to politics . When I say this to my friends here , some of them seem to think that I am out of my ...
... give you . I have returned with a small independ- ence , but still an independence . All my tastes and wishes lead me to prefer literature to politics . When I say this to my friends here , some of them seem to think that I am out of my ...
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... give a proof of my spirit at expense of my understanding . the Ever yours most truly T. B. MACAULAY . London : August 14 , 1838 . Dear Napier , -Your old friend Wallace and I have been pretty near exchanging shots . However , all is ac ...
... give a proof of my spirit at expense of my understanding . the Ever yours most truly T. B. MACAULAY . London : August 14 , 1838 . Dear Napier , -Your old friend Wallace and I have been pretty near exchanging shots . However , all is ac ...
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... give his friends the gravest cause for alarm . And , as if this were not enough , Brougham is persecuting him with the utmost malignity . I did not think it possible for human nature , in an educated civilised man , —a man , too , of ...
... give his friends the gravest cause for alarm . And , as if this were not enough , Brougham is persecuting him with the utmost malignity . I did not think it possible for human nature , in an educated civilised man , —a man , too , of ...
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... gives in Horatius . When I followed him over that ground many years after , I am sure that I marked the very turn in the road where the lines struck him : From where Cortona lifts to heaven Her diadem of towers ; and so on through ...
... gives in Horatius . When I followed him over that ground many years after , I am sure that I marked the very turn in the road where the lines struck him : From where Cortona lifts to heaven Her diadem of towers ; and so on through ...
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... gives rise mingle with other thoughts ; look around upon it in intervals of reading ; and not go to it as one goes to see the lions fed at a fair . The beautiful is not to be stared at , but to be lived with . I have no pleasure from ...
... gives rise mingle with other thoughts ; look around upon it in intervals of reading ; and not go to it as one goes to see the lions fed at a fair . The beautiful is not to be stared at , but to be lived with . I have no pleasure from ...
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Página 177 - Therefore it is that we are not poorer but richer, because we have, through many ages, rested from our labour one day in seven. That day is not lost. While industry is suspended, while the plough lies in the furrow, while the Exchange is silent, while no smoke ascends from the factory, a process is going on quite as important to the wealth of nations as any process which is performed on more busy days. Man, the machine of machines, the machine compared with which all the contrivances of the Watts...
Página 390 - I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Página 469 - Just such is the feeling which a man of liberal education naturally entertains towards the great minds of former ages. The debt which he owes to them is incalculable. They have guided him to truth. They have filled his mind with noble and graceful images. They have stood by him in all vicissitudes, comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude.
Página 341 - Cambridge instead of the Newtonian, the senior wrangler would nevertheless be in general a superior man to the wooden spoon. If, instead of learning Greek, we learned the Cherokee, the man who understood the Cherokee best, who made the most correct and melodious Cherokee verses, who comprehended most accurately the effect of the Cherokee particles, would generally be a superior man to him who was destitute of these accomplishments. If astrology were taught at our Universities, the young man who cast...
Página 239 - But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and from literary history, in which he was deeply read, that the place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about them, but by what is written in them...
Página 340 - It is said, I know, that examinations in Latin, in Greek, and in mathematics, are no tests of what men will prove to be in life. I am perfectly aware that they are not infallible tests: but that they are tests I confidently maintain.
Página 340 - Whatever be the languages, whatever be the sciences, which it is, in any age or country, the fashion to teach, those who become the greatest proficients in those Languages and those sciences will generally be the flower of the youth — the most acute, the most industrious, the most ambitious of honourable distinctions.
Página 227 - As soon as Macaulay had finished his rough draft, he began to fill it in at the rate of six sides of foolscap every morning; written in so large a hand, and with such a multitude of erasures, that the whole six pages were, on an average, compressed into two pages of print. This portion he called his 'task,' and he was never quite easy unless he completed it daily.