 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1875 - 82 Seiten
...the colonies : " out of all proportion, beyond the numbers of the people ; " in respect to which " fiction lags after truth ; invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren." Of their expanding agriculture, he said : " For some time past the Old World has been fed from the... | |
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain), Royal Empire Society (Great Britain) - 1875 - 310 Seiten
...that only in the eloquent language of the famous Burke can we find words to describe its progress : " Fiction lags after truth ; invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren ; " and in another passage : " For my part, I never cast an eye on their flourishing commerce, and... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 Seiten
...choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have...So far, sir, as to the importance of the object in view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports from England. If I were to detail the imports, I... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 Seiten
...choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have...invention is unfruitful : and imagination cold and barren. 5k) far, sir, as to the importance of the object in view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1877 - 894 Seiten
...titanic works, measured by the visible results which form the actual and the indestructable of our day, " fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful and imagination cold and barren. '' This warder of the brain, and this teacher of philosophy, today evoke the past, and now pass in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 Seiten
...choose, Sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have...So far, Sir, as to the importance of the object, in view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports from England. If I were to detail the imports, I... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1882 - 1040 Seiten
...titanic works, measured by the visible results which form the actual and the indestructable of our day, " fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful and imagination cold and barren.'' This warder of the brain, and this teacher of philosophy, today evoke the past, and now pass in review... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 Seiten
...; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle. Vol. ip 526. Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Vol. ii. p. 116. A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 Seiten
...enter into these minute and particular details; because generalities, which in all other cases are 30 apt to heighten and raise the subject, have here a...So far, Sir, as to the importance of the object in view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports from England. If I were to detail the imports, I... | |
 | Sunset club, Chicago - 1891 - 250 Seiten
...colonies in the most eloquent language of his greatest speech, and while declaring that when speaking " of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after...invention is unfruitful and imagination cold and barren." He at the same time implored Parliament, " in particular not to arrest the noble course of their marine... | |
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I choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have here a tendency to sink it. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags... 
