 It is ridiculous to imagine that a man, whose mind was really imbued with scorn of his fellow-creatures, would have published three or four books every year in order to tell them so ; or that a man, who could say with truth that he neither sought sympathy...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5661831Full view - About this book
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 374 pages
...which he gave of himself, may be doubted • but that he was not such a person is beyond all doubt. 6. It is ridiculous to imagine that a man whose mind...sought sympathy nor needed it, would have admitted all Eutope to hear his farewell to his wife, and his blessings on his child. In the second canto of Childe... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...decide. Whether there ever existed, or can ever exist, a person answering to the description which he gave of himself, may be doubted; but that he was not such a person is beyond all doubt. 6. It is ridiculous to imagine that a man whose mind was really imbued with scorn of his fellow-creatures,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 372 pages
...decide. Whether there ever existed, or can ever exist, a person answering to the description which he gave of himself, may be doubted ; but that he was not such a person is beyond all doubt. 6. It is ridiculous to imagine that a man whose mind was really imbued with scorn of his fellow-creatures,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1873 - 1090 pages
...decide. Whether there ever existed, or can ever exist, a person answering to the description which he gave of himself may be doubted ; but that he was not...books every year in order to tell them so ; or that a maii who could say with truth that he neither sought sympathy nor needed it would have admitted all... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pages
...decide. Whether there ever existed, or can ever exist, a person answering to the description which he gave of himself, may be doubted : but that he was...every year in order to tell them so ; or that a man could say with truth, that he neither sought sympathy nor needed it would have admitted all Europe... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pages
...decide. Whether there ever existed, or can ever exist, a person answering to the description which he gave of himself, may be doubted : but that he was...all doubt. It is ridiculous to imagine that a man who mind was really imbued with scorn of his fellow-creatures would have published three or four books... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1875 - 876 pages
...there ever existed, or can ever exist, a person answering to the description which he gave of liimself may be doubted; but that he was not such a person...all doubt. It is ridiculous to imagine that a man whoso mind was really imbued with scorn of his fellow-creatures would have published three or four... | |
 | Lewis Scharf - English literature - 1875 - 598 pages
...Dichtungen gezeichnet. Sehr richtig sagt Macaulay in seiner Kritik von Moore's ,,Life of Lord Byron:" nlt is ridiculous to imagine that a man whose mind was really imbued with scorn of his fellow creatures would have published three or four books every year in order to tell them so." —... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1877 - 808 pages
...careful arrangement. " It is ridiculous to imagine," observed the blunt common sense of Macaulay, " that a man whose mind was really imbued with scorn of his fellowcreatures would publish three or four books every year in order to tell them so ; or that a man who could say with... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 616 pages
...careful arrangement. "It is ridiculous to imagine," observed the blunt common-sense of Macaulay, " that a man whose mind was really imbued with scorn of his fellow-creatures would publish three or four books every year in order to tell them so ; or that a man who could say with... | |
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