 | 1894 - 576 pages
...diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all bis mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator...chorus of clouds affected the simplehearted Athenian. . . . Now, Mr. Gladstone is fond of employing the phraseology of which wo speak in those parts of his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and 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,—a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would ment, dimple-hearted Athenian. K, cdf ccpoy, «ai ffcfivoi/, xat rcpar&jjff. When propositions have been... | |
 | 1877 - 564 pages
...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 pages
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination anda scanty vocabulary, wouldhave saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one...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 pages
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has...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 pages
...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 pages
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would cted that, during the interval which might claps*...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 pages
...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 pages
...illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a harren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has...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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... remarkable analogy to his mode of thinking, and 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... 
