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... never be supplied . He was so unlike any other being one ever sees , and his visits amongst us were a sort of re- freshment which served not a little to enliven and cheer our monotonous way of life ; but now day after day rises and sets ...
... never be supplied . He was so unlike any other being one ever sees , and his visits amongst us were a sort of re- freshment which served not a little to enliven and cheer our monotonous way of life ; but now day after day rises and sets ...
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... never heard of by the gentle- man who has been employed to edit this volume , and who , not content with deforming Sir James Mackintosh's text by such blunders , has prefixed to it a bad memoir , has appended to it a bad continuation ...
... never heard of by the gentle- man who has been employed to edit this volume , and who , not content with deforming Sir James Mackintosh's text by such blunders , has prefixed to it a bad memoir , has appended to it a bad continuation ...
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... never will 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 ...
... never will 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 ...
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... never written a page of criticism on poetry , or the fine arts , which I would not burn if I had the power . Hazlitt used to say of himself , " I am nothing if not criti- cal . " The case with me is directly the reverse . I have a ...
... never written a page of criticism on poetry , or the fine arts , which I would not burn if I had the power . Hazlitt used to say of himself , " I am nothing if not criti- cal . " The case with me is directly the reverse . I have a ...
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... never make the experiment again . I begged them not to imagine that I thought a place which Mackintosh had been anxious to obtain beneath me . Very far from it . I admitted it to be above the market price of my services ; but it was ...
... never make the experiment again . I begged them not to imagine that I thought a place which Mackintosh had been anxious to obtain beneath me . Very far from it . I admitted it to be above the market price of my services ; but it was ...
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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.