 | 1838 - 870 páginas
...peculiarity in the ordering of a house, a garden, or a courtmasque, could escape the notice of one whose mind was capable of taking in the whole world of knowledge....fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it, and it itemed a toy for the hand of a lady. Spread it, and the armies of powerful Sultans might repose beneath... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 páginas
...peculiarity in the ordering of a house, a garden, or a court-masque, could escape the notice of one whose mind was capable of taking in the whole world of knowledge....His understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanon gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it ; and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady. Spread it, and... | |
 | Stephen Collins - 1842 - 318 páginas
...LORD BACON. THE genius of Bacon has been compared to the tent which "Paribanou, the fairy, presented to Prince Ahmed. Fold it, and it seemed a toy for...powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade." While he stood on an eminence, and extended his view over the great ocean of knowledge, his attention... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 páginas
...use. But then, it must be remembered, that induction "resembles the tent which the fairy Paribahou gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it, and it seemed a toy...powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade." When it is the toy for the hand of a lady, we may use it without the aid of precepts, but when it is... | |
 | 1849 - 606 páginas
...are made "to do his spiriting gently." Thus, to take a single example, he compares Bacon's mind to the tent which the Fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed ; fold it, and it seemed a toy for a lady's hand ; spread it, and the armies of powerful sultans might repose beneath its shade. This... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...taking in the whole world ofknowledje. His understanding resembled the lent which the fairy Panbanou W e f h ••oualled, though perhaps never surpassed. buv the largeness of his mind was all his own. The glance... | |
 | 1849 - 588 páginas
...tent which the Fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed ; foM it, and it seemed a toy for a lady's hand ; spread it, and the armies of powerful sultans might repose beneath its shade. This power of illustration, which arises from a quick " perception of resemblances in things dissimilar,"... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1851 - 248 páginas
...the wondrous and manifold excellences of that mind which Mr. Macaulay has so felicitously compared to the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince...of powerful sultans might repose beneath its shade. SECOND EPOCH. FOUNDATION OF THE DEDUCTIVE METHOD. CHAP. I. LIFE OF DESCARTES. CHAF. II. His METHOD.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...courtmasque, could escape the notice of one whose mind was capable of taking in the whole world uf knowledge. His understanding resembled the tent which...its shade. In keenness of observation he has been «•«mailed, though perhaps never surpassed. l>iu the largeness of his mind was all his own. The... | |
 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...peculiarity in the ordering of a house, a garden, or a courtmasque, could escape the notice of one whose mind was capable of taking in the whole world of knowledge. His understanding resembled the lent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it, and it seemed a toy for the hand of a... | |
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His understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it ; and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady. Spread it ; and the armies of powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade. 
