Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1850 |
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Pagina 149
... Temple is one of those men whom the world has agreed to praise highly without knowing much about them , and who are ... Temple . Yet Temple is not a man to our taste . A temper not na- turally good , but under strict command ; a constant ...
... Temple is one of those men whom the world has agreed to praise highly without knowing much about them , and who are ... Temple . Yet Temple is not a man to our taste . A temper not na- turally good , but under strict command ; a constant ...
Pagina 150
... Temple , we fear , had not sufficient warmth and elevation of sentiment to deserve the name of a virtuous man . He did not betray or oppress his country ; nay , he rendered considerable services to her ; but he risked nothing for her ...
... Temple , we fear , had not sufficient warmth and elevation of sentiment to deserve the name of a virtuous man . He did not betray or oppress his country ; nay , he rendered considerable services to her ; but he risked nothing for her ...
Pagina 151
... Temple . For in truth his faultlessness is chiefly to be ascribed to his extreme dread of all responsibility , to his determination rather to leave his country in a scrape than to run any chance of being in a scrape himself . He seems ...
... Temple . For in truth his faultlessness is chiefly to be ascribed to his extreme dread of all responsibility , to his determination rather to leave his country in a scrape than to run any chance of being in a scrape himself . He seems ...
Pagina 152
... Temple been brought before Dante's infernal tribunal , he would not have been condemned to the deeper recesses of the abyss . He would not have been boiled with Dundee in the crimson pool of Bulicame ... Temple as 152 SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE .
... Temple been brought before Dante's infernal tribunal , he would not have been condemned to the deeper recesses of the abyss . He would not have been boiled with Dundee in the crimson pool of Bulicame ... Temple as 152 SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE .
Pagina 153
... Temple as a perfect statesman , though we place him below many states- men who have committed very great errors , we cannot deny that , when compared with his contemporaries , he makes a highly respectable appearance . The reaction ...
... Temple as a perfect statesman , though we place him below many states- men who have committed very great errors , we cannot deny that , when compared with his contemporaries , he makes a highly respectable appearance . The reaction ...
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