 | 1832 - 614 páginas
...expedient of using many in its stead. He had so thoroughly studied the genius of the language, and knew so well how to steer between pedantry and vulgarity, that two centuries have not superannuated probably more than a dozen of his words. His expressions are so luminous, that... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 582 páginas
...expedient of using many in its stead. He had so thoroughly studied the genius of the language, and knew so well how to steer between pedantry and vulgarity, that two centuries have not superannuated probably more than a dozen of his words. His expressions are so luminous, that... | |
 | 1846 - 810 páginas
...expedient of using many in its stead. He had so thoroughly studied the genins of the language, and knew so well how to steer between pedantry and vulgarity, that two centuries have not superannuated probably more than a dozen of his words. His expressions are so luminous, that... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 páginas
...expedient of using many in its stead. He had so thoroughly studied the genius of the language, and knew so well how to steer between pedantry and vulgarity, that two centuries have not superannuated probably more than a dozen of his words. His expressions are so luminous, that... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1848 - 630 páginas
...expedient of using many in its stead. He had so thoroughly studied the genius of the language, and knew so well how to steer between pedantry and vulgarity, that two centuries have not superannuated probably more than a dozen ot his words. His expressions are so luminous, that... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 páginas
...expedient of using many in its stead. He had so thoroughly studied the genius of the language, and knew so well how to steer between pedantry and vulgarity, that two centuries have not superannuated probably more than a dozen of his words.' Lord Clarendon describes the personal... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - 1860 - 330 páginas
...get itself recognized in the senates and cabinets, the overreaching diplomacy and the paltry palaces, of actual States ! None the less is it every man's...institution to extend or embody his principles. With him " a deliberate regard to personal interest is the only possible motive to human action. There is no... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - 1860 - 332 páginas
...eternal noon. Take the law of nations as an exam pie. Nothing deserving that name had existence til] these modern times. The barbarous tribes waited for...institution to extend or embody his principles. With him " a deliberate regard to personal interest is the only possible motive to human action. There is no... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1871 - 616 páginas
...expedient of using many in its stead. He had so thoroughly studied the genius of the language, and knew so well how to steer between pedantry and vulgarity, that two centuries have not superannuated probably more than a dozen of his words. His expressions are so luminous, that... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - 1887 - 164 páginas
...admiration of wits, the delight of scholars, and a model to philosophers, declared by Leibnitz to be one of the only two men of modern times capable of...yet scarcely an avowed disciple to honor his name, only here and there a reader whom shame does not drive from his conclusions as from some crime revolting... | |
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... slacken. His little tract on Human Nature has scarcely an ambiguous or a needless word. He has so great a power of always choosing the most significant term, that he never is reduced to the poor expedient of using many in its stead. He had so thoroughly... 