Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Pagina 10
... learned education : he was a profound and elegant classical scholar : he had studied all the mysteries of Rabbinical literature : he was intimately acquainted with every language of modern Europe , from which either pleasure or ...
... learned education : he was a profound and elegant classical scholar : he had studied all the mysteries of Rabbinical literature : he was intimately acquainted with every language of modern Europe , from which either pleasure or ...
Pagina 62
... learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . An- other remarks that since it was translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to the custom of strangling their brothers . Lord Lyttelton ...
... learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . An- other remarks that since it was translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to the custom of strangling their brothers . Lord Lyttelton ...
Pagina 71
... learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public ' prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields of the intellect had been turned into arid ...
... learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public ' prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields of the intellect had been turned into arid ...
Pagina 90
... learned profession ; and the dignity with which he wears the doctoral fur , renders his absurdities infinitely more grotesque . The old Tuscan is the very language for such a being . Its peculiar simplicity gives even to the most ...
... learned profession ; and the dignity with which he wears the doctoral fur , renders his absurdities infinitely more grotesque . The old Tuscan is the very language for such a being . Its peculiar simplicity gives even to the most ...
Pagina 105
... checks and fundamental laws as a prodigy not less astonishing than the learned pig or the musical infant . Specious but shallow , studious of effect , in- different to truth , eager to build a system , MACHIAVELLI . 105.
... checks and fundamental laws as a prodigy not less astonishing than the learned pig or the musical infant . Specious but shallow , studious of effect , in- different to truth , eager to build a system , MACHIAVELLI . 105.
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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