 | 1839 - 618 sidor
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one...chorus of Clouds affected the simple-hearted Athenian. When propositions have been established, and nothing remains but to amplify and decorate them, this... | |
 | 1894 - 576 sidor
...diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all bis mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator...chorus of clouds affected the simplehearted Athenian. . . . Now, Mr. Gladstone is fond of employing the phraseology of which wo speak in those parts of his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 sidor
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator,—a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 sidor
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have dimple-hearted Athenian. K, cdf ccpoy, «ai ffcfivoi/, xat rcpar&jjff. When propositions have been... | |
 | 1877 - 564 sidor
...of a kind of language, grave and maJtrtic, but of vague and uncertain import ; of a kind of language in which the lofty diction of the Chorus of Clouds affected the simple-hearted Athenian." — Essays, ed. 1862, vol. ii. p. 433. " The more strictly Mr. Gladstone reasons on his premises, the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 sidor
...logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination anda scanty vocabulary, wouldhave saved him from almost...chorus of Clouds affected the simple-hearted Athenian. w y?j , TOV fI,&tyffarO,;' oi; Itfiov, no,l <j,p/vov , xal tff)arw$t(;. When propositions have been... | |
 | 1852 - 302 sidor
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one...Chorus of Clouds affected the simple-hearted Athenian. " ii yfj rov fBiyitaros, w£ itfbv, xal oiitvov, cai " When propositions have been established, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 sidor
...barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He lias one gift most dangerous to a speculator, — a vast...chorus of Clouds affected the Simple-hearted Athenian. in rov us ifpof , «at fftnvov, «at When propositions have been established, and nothing remains but... | |
 | 1852 - 780 sidor
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one...kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague ind uncertain import, — of a kind of language which affects us much in the same way in which the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 sidor
...ablest men." He then notices, in one of his contemporary statesmen, the dangerous gift which consists in a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import, which if admitted into a demonstration, is very much worse than absolute nonsense. Plato shows how... | |
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... remarkable analogy to his mode of thinking, and indeed exercises great influence on his mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens and perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with... 
