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Pagina 28
... on the Wealth of Nations and on the Principia , and should regret to see either of those great works garbled even by the ablest hands . But in works which owe much of their interest to 28 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... on the Wealth of Nations and on the Principia , and should regret to see either of those great works garbled even by the ablest hands . But in works which owe much of their interest to 28 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
Pagina 29
... hand may supply a par- ticular deficiency , but would grievously injure the general effect . With Boswell's book the case is stronger . There is scarcely , in the whole compass of literature , a book which bears interpolation so ill ...
... hand may supply a par- ticular deficiency , but would grievously injure the general effect . With Boswell's book the case is stronger . There is scarcely , in the whole compass of literature , a book which bears interpolation so ill ...
Pagina 36
... hand , passed through the crowd of his suitors to welcome Par- nell , when that ingenious writer deserted the Whigs . Steele was a commissioner of stamps and a member of Parliament . Arthur Mainwaring was a commissioner of the customs ...
... hand , passed through the crowd of his suitors to welcome Par- nell , when that ingenious writer deserted the Whigs . Steele was a commissioner of stamps and a member of Parliament . Arthur Mainwaring was a commissioner of the customs ...
Pagina 39
... hands which ministered to their necessities . To assist them was impos- sible ; and the most benevolent of mankind at length became weary of giving relief , which was dissipated with the wildest profusion as soon as it had been received ...
... hands which ministered to their necessities . To assist them was impos- sible ; and the most benevolent of mankind at length became weary of giving relief , which was dissipated with the wildest profusion as soon as it had been received ...
Pagina 53
... hand to write for the public , his style became systematically vicious . All his books are written in a learned language - in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse - in a lan- guage in which nobody ever quarrels ...
... hand to write for the public , his style became systematically vicious . All his books are written in a learned language - in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse - in a lan- guage in which nobody ever quarrels ...
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Pagina 45 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Pagina 169 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Pagina 411 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Pagina 165 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Pagina 53 - This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Pagina 215 - He was, unless we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character, the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious of men. His mind was a bundle of inconsistent whims and affectations. His features were covered by mask within mask. When the outer disguise of obvious affectation was removed, you were still as far as ever from seeing the real man.
Pagina 349 - England's high Chancellor, the destined heir, In his soft cradle , to his father's chair, Whose even thread the Fates spin round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool.
Pagina 32 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book.
Pagina 297 - ... which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No...
Pagina 46 - I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases?' SIR ADAM: 'But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown.