 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1919 - 680 sidor
...Florence continually indulges in language which reminds us of Macaulay's criticism of Gladstone. " He has one gift most dangerous ' to a speculator,...and " majestic, but of vague and uncertain import." The explanation is that Dr. Florence has attempted too much and been led to write about matters which... | |
 | Robert C. Ferguson - 1887 - 308 sidor
...Gladstone sees is refracted and distorted by a false medium of passions and prejudices. He has one gift a kind of language grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import, a kind of language which affects us much in the same way in which the lofty diction of the chorus of... | |
 | George Brooks - 1889 - 520 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." Macaulay says that this " dim magnificence " may fitly " amplify and decorate " propositions which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 sidor
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have with horse-soldiers ; then again he turned some hundreds...despatches with epigrams. The ministers thought that it ¡a which the lofty diction of the chorus of Clouds affected the simple-hearted Athenian, ш yij той... | |
 | 1890 - 844 sidor
...analogy to his mode of thinking, and, indeed, exercises great influence on his mode of thinking. ... He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator —...grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import — a kind of language which affects us much in the same way as the lofty diction of the Chorus of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 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 n kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import—of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 sidor
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have pestilential jungles, preferring famine, and fever,...lucre, sold their substance, and their blood, and t& 717 rou <p0£yna.TOS uis Ifpbv, Ka.1 ffcfj.vbv, teal TepartSSey. When propositions have been established,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 726 sidor
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would h;ivo saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one...Chorus of Clouds affected the simple-hearted Athenian. M yrl TOV <li6t-y[tarof, iic itpov, KOI atntov, Kul Ttparutiec. When propositions have been established,... | |
 | Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus - 1898 - 434 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... | |
 | Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus - 1898 - 432 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... | |
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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... 
