 ... with contempt. All those arts which are the natural defence of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger,...  Warren Hastings - Page 31by Thomas Babington Macaulay baron Macaulay - 1886 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 216 pages
...; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those arts ^ which are the natural defence of the weak are more famil;.S\. iar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1910 - 326 pages
...climates 10 to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural defense of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race...the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the 15 bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalese. Large... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 328 pages
...but its sup10 pleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural...Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the 15 dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1912 - 340 pages
...sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural defense of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the 5 Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo,... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - 1853 - 324 pages
...but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration, not unrningled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural...the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than they were to the lonians of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are... | |
 | Michael Edwardes - 1976 - 228 pages
...resistance; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural defence of the weak are more familiar 30 to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What... | |
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