 His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt.  Lord Macaulay's Essays ; And, Lays of Ancient Rome - Pagina 636door Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 924 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Francis Augustus Cox - 1842 - 464 pagina’s
...limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages, he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity,...of the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns... | |
 | 1842 - 654 pagina’s
...independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation ore equally unfavorable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It...of the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pagina’s
...his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hearty breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qualities...the natural defence of the weak, are more familiar with this subtle race than to the Ionian of the times of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pagina’s
...independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavorable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It...unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the 184 natural defence of the weak, are more familiar this subtle race than to the Ionian of the times... | |
 | 1857 - 992 pagina’s
...limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled on by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity,...of the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race, than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of the darkest ages. What the horns... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 pagina’s
...limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity,...the natural defence of the weak, are more familiar with this subtle race than to the Ionian of the times of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 410 pagina’s
...independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavorable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It...of the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of the darkest ages. What the horns... | |
 | 1855 - 802 pagina’s
...limbs delicate, his movements languid. Daring many ages, he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity,...to his body. It is weak even to helplessness, for the purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates... | |
 | Norman Chevers - 1856 - 628 pagina’s
...Abstemiousness, in some respects more rigorous than that of a western hermit, in a life of inloximind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak,...of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the... | |
 | 1856 - 590 pagina’s
...his body. It is weak, even to helplessness, for purposes of manly resistance, but its suppleness and tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration,...of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the... | |
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