 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1880 - 728 sidor
...shadows have occasionally been more to him than the substance. ' He has one gift,' said Macaulay, ' most dangerous to a speculator, a vast command of...and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import.' It is not a difficult transition from this charge of redundancy of words to a more recent charge made... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1881 - 386 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. tf 77} TOV QQey/jiaTos, ws iepbv, Kai ffeft.vlivt Kal Tepa-rwSes. When propositions have been established,... | |
 | Lewis Apjohn - 1881 - 402 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...' Clouds ' affected the simple-hearted Athenian." This literary estimate is not altogether unjust, even as applied to the maturer writings and speeches... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 sidor
...and diligence, with a barren imagination and scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost half his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a...and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import." Mr. Gladstone and the " Sliding Scale." — Mr. Gladstone had occupied subordinate offices in the brief... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 1084 sidor
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scant vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one...of the Chorus of Clouds affected the simplehearted Athenians. When propositions have been established, and nothing remains but to amplify and decorate... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1882 - 138 sidor
...illustrate. Half his acutenoss and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerou* to a speculator — a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 sidor
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have y ; it was t 3 Vaiii affects us much in the same way in which the lofty diction of the слоги» of Clouds affected... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 sidor
...to a speculator, a vast command of a kind of language, grave and +70 GLADSTONE ON CHURCH AND STA TE. majestic, but of vague and uncertain import ; of a...chorus of Clouds affected the simple-hearted Athenian. Hi yfj TOV фвеуцатт Ú! lepbv, ка.1 (re/art», (toi TcparüScs. When propositions have been... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1883 - 1254 sidor
...imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one ;ift most dangerous to a speculator, a vast command of...of a kind of language which affects us much in the ¡ame way in which the lofty diction of the Chorus of Clouds affected the situ pic-hearted Athenian.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 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...lofty diction of the Chorus of Clouds affected the siiu pie-hearted Athenian. S> yjj rov QBfynaros, as Itpbv, icol < When propositions have been established,... | |
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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... 
