 | 1828 - 608 páginas
...transactions are nrominent, others retire. Hut the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them; but according to the decree in which they elucidate the condition of society and the nature of man. He shows us the court,... | |
 | 1849 - 782 páginas
...transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale, on which he represents them, is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. But ho shows us also the nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying,... | |
 | 1849 - 820 páginas
...transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale, on which he represents them, is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...the nature of man. He shows us the court, the camp, aud the senate. But he shows us also the nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 páginas
...transactions are prominent, others retire; but the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...; but he shows us also the nation. He considers no aneedote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice, which... | |
 | 1858 - 572 páginas
...York : Harper & Brothers. 185S. [OCTOBER But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...in them, but according to the degree in which they educate the condition of society, and the nature of man. He shows us the court, the camp, the senate.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 páginas
...others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not accoiding to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but...peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignifi» cant for his notice, which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 páginas
...transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for Us notice, which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 426 páginas
...transactions are prominent; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...man. He shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. Bjit he shows us also the nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 páginas
...represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned m he sun but a cavern. To im pute to such a man any...improvement of a plough, a ship, or a mill, is an insult. " Ms notice, which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 páginas
...transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...which they elucidate the condition of society and vthe nature of man. He shows us the court, the camp, and the [senate. But he shows us also the nation.... | |
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... testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the... 
