 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 Seiten
...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,...chorus of Clouds affected the simple-hearted Athenian. y yr[ TOV tpOiypurof, ui; itpw, KO.\ iri/*vjv, KO.\ TfparwBej. When propositions have been established,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 Seiten
...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 import,—of a kind of language which affects us much in the same way in which the lofty diction of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 Seiten
...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,...lofty diction of the chorus of Clouds affected the dimple-hearted Athenian. K, cdf ccpoy, «ai ffcfivoi/, xat rcpar&jjff. When propositions have been... | |
 | 1877 - 564 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...diligence, with a barren imagination anda scanty vocabulary, wouldhave saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator,...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 Seiten
...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,...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his h might claps* between his death and the arrival of...his successor, the government should be administered ind uncertain import, — of a kind of language which affects us much in the same way in which the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 Seiten
...diligence, with a harren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator,...Chorus of Clouds affected the simple-hearted Athenian. "ш yi¡ roí фвЕуратoс, us «par, «ai ar1ivôv, Kai r€par¿Í£c. " When propositions have... | |
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... 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 a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary,... 
