 | Francis Augustus Cox - 1842 - 464 pages
...veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak,...the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even...the natural defence of the weak, are more familiar with this subtle race than to the Ionian of the times of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavorable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even...unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the 184 natural defence of the weak, are more familiar this subtle race than to the Ionian of the times... | |
 | 1857 - 992 pages
...veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even...weak, are more familiar to this subtle race, than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of the darkest ages. What the horns... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 410 pages
...veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavorable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even...the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of the darkest ages. What the horns... | |
 | 1855 - 802 pages
...veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even to helplessness, for the purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates... | |
 | 1856 - 590 pages
...falschood, 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 unmingled with contempt. All those arts... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1864 - 516 pages
...veracity are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even...move the children of sterner climates to admiration non unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural defence of the weak are more familiar... | |
 | 1864 - 486 pages
...strong influence in producing the present feature of the national character. Macaulay remarks, " Ail those arts which are the natural defence of the weak...familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the tinu of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even...the natural defence of the weak are more familiar to thts subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the... | |
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His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his 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... 
