 | England - 1840 - 880 pages
...attempted to murder a friend by means of a dumb-bell ; in which he showed his judgment — we mean in his choice of tools ; for otherwise, in attempting to...to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognisance (and pretty... | |
 | Scotland - 1840 - 1522 pages
...and therefore, by way of compromise, we call him long, which, in one sense, he certainly was ; for be lived through four-and-twenty Olympiads, each containing...to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognisance (and pretty... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Essenes - 1853 - 372 pages
...attempted to murder a friend by means of a dumb-bell; in which he showed his judgment—we mean in his choice of tools ; for otherwise, in attempting to...to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognisance (and pretty... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Essenes - 1853 - 372 pages
...attempted to murder a friend by means of a dumb-bell ; in which he showed his judgment — we mean in his choice of tools ; for otherwise, in attempting to...to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognisance (and pretty... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Essenes - 1853 - 370 pages
...attempted to murder a friend by means of a dumb-bell; in which he showed his judgment—we mean in his choice of tools ; for otherwise, in attempting to...to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognisance (and pretty... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 378 pages
...attempted to murder a friend by means of a dumb-bell; in which he showed his judgment, we mean in his choice of tools; for otherwise, in attempting to murder...to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognisance (and pretty... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 364 pages
...connects them, is the long man that ran into each system, binding the two together. Who was that 1 It was Isocrates. Great we cannot call him in conscience;...to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognisance (and pretty... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 374 pages
...the long man that ran into each system, binding the two together. Who was that ? It was Isoerates. Great we cannot call him in conscience ; and, therefore,...to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognisance (and pretty... | |
 | David Masson - 1881 - 222 pages
...sheathed in green baize. . . . Now, reader, it is under this image of the dumb-bell that we conch our allegory. Those globes at each end are the two systems...to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognisance (and pretty... | |
 | David Masson - 1882 - 230 pages
...globes at each end are the two systems or separate clusters of Greek literature; and that eylinder which connects them is the long man that ran into...to centre, yet, as each system might be supposed to protend a radius each way of twenty years, he had, in fact, a full personal cognisance (and pretty... | |
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Now, reader, it is under this image of the dumb-bell we couch an allegory. Those globes at each end are the two systems or separate clusters of Greek Literature; and that cylinder which connects them is the long man that ran into each system, binding... 
