 | Jonathan Swift - 1857 - 432 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 460 páginas
...unfairly and unjustly "run down," published it, in order to put his critics to shame, with this motto from Swift : " When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this mark — that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." We remember another anecdote, which may... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 374 páginas
...and unjustly " run down," published it, in order to put his critics to shame, with this motto from Swift : " When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this mark — that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." We remember another anecdote, which may... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 372 páginas
...and unjustly " run down," published it, in order to put his critics to shame, with this motto from Swift : " When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this mark — that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." We remember another anecdote, which may... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 páginas
...and unjustly " run down," published it, in order to put his critics to shame, with this motto from Swift : " When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this mark — that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." We remember another anecdote, which may... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 páginas
...and unjustly " run down," published it, in order to put his critics to shame, with this motto from Swift : " When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this mark — that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." We remember another anecdote, which may... | |
 | Joe Miller - 1871 - 206 páginas
...inflating his lungs, he bellowed forth, "Fleeawa'!" A SURE SIGN. When a true genins appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all against him. WHERE TO CUT IT. Daniel Burgess, dining with a gentleman of his congrebade the servant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1875 - 608 páginas
...that a man should lose the honour of it. This is exactly my situation." In the following he quotes Swift : — "When a true genius appears in the world,...— that the dunces are all in confederacy against tan." Yet, though blinded by folly and weighed down by distress, still his filial affections were alive,... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 404 páginas
...with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genins appears in the world you may know him by this sign,...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder... | |
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 
