 movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a singular analogy...  Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 19by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Full view - About this book
 | George Trevor - 1799 - 370 pages
...effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour hath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled...body. It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manl resistance; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of stp climes to admiration, not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hearty breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapor bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limba delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hearty breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 370 pages
...sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by »en of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence,...to helplessness, for purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled...to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - 1853 - 324 pages
...effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapor bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs are delicate, his movements languid. During many ages, he has been trampled...bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, and vivacity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavorable. His... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled...even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 412 pages
...are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled on by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence,...which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavorable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even to helplessness for purposes... | |
 | Norman Chevers - 1856 - 628 pages
...Abstemiousness, in some respects more rigorous than that of a western hermit, in a life of inloximind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak,...to helplessness, for purposes of manly resistance, but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration, not unmingled... | |
 | 1856 - 592 pages
...falsehood, no faith, no constancy, no shame, no belief in the existence of justice." (Mackintosh.) his body. It is weak, even to helplessness, for purposes of manly resistance, but its suppleness and tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration, not unminglcd with... | |
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