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" When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. "
The miscellaneous writings, speeches and poems of lord Macaulay - Página 263
por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880
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The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...

Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 514 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, perfons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this fign, that the dunces are all in confederacy againft him. Men who poflcfs all the advantages of life,...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volumen5

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign» that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life,...
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Miscellaneous essays

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 562 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life,...
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The Literary History of Galloway, from the Earliest Period to the Present ...

Thomas Murray - 1822 - 402 páginas
...should lose the honour of it. This is exactly my situation !" The other is from Dean Swift : " Wh|na true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign— that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Nor did these works, voluminous as they...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen2

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...brightness on their memory than you received from them. Dry den — To the Duke of Ormond. DCCCCXXX. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Swift. DCCCCXXXI. Scandal. I was an infidel...
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The Youth's Miscellaneous Sketch Book: A Compilation of Useful and Amusing ...

1829 - 126 páginas
...fire. When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are in confederacy against him. A good word is as soon said as a bad one. If...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volumen2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 páginas
...more brightness on their memory than you received from them. Dryden—To the Duke of Ormend. DCCCCXXX. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.—Swift. DCCCCXXXI. Scandal. I was an infidel...
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The Torch

412 páginas
...abominable that a man should lose the honour of it. This is exactly my situation !" The other is from Dean Swift : — " When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign — that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." But amid all his folly and distress he...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable ..., Volumen2

Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons and events we read, and we little regard the authors. od boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter. I have reckone sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life...
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The kaleidoscope of anecdotes and aphorisms, collected by C. Sinclair

Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 páginas
...Steer the bark of thy mind from the syren isle of reverie. Tapper's Proverbial Philosophy. Swift says: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may...know him by this mark — that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him." Lord Erskine mentions a fine instance of native eloquence in an Indian...
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