 I have had the honour to know Mr Mazzini for a series of years ; and, whatever I may think of his practical insight and skill in worldly affairs, I can with great freedom, testify to all men, that he, if I have ever seen one such, is a man of genius and...  The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 1571844Full view - About this book
 | 1907 - 584 pages
...recognised better than Jowett the moral greatness of Mazzini. ' Whatever I may think,' he wrote, ' of his practical insight and skill in worldly affairs,...freedom testify to all men that he, if I have ever seen such, is a man of genius and virtue, a man of sterling veracity, humanity, and nobleness of mind, one... | |
 | 1897 - 918 pages
...famous defence of Mazzini. "I have had the honor to know Mr. Mazzini for a series of years," he says, "and, whatever I may think of his practical Insight...with great freedom testify to all men that he, if ever I have seen one such, is a man of genius and virtue, a man of sterling veracity, humanity, and... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 914 pages
...attachments " I have had the honor," says Thomas Carlyle, "to know Mr. Mazzini for a series of yean, and whatever I may think of his practical insight...is a man of genius and virtue ; a man of sterling virtue, humanity, and nobleness of mind ; one of those rare men, numerable, unfortunately, but as units... | |
 | 1872 - 970 pages
...protest in the London T'tmtJ). " I have had," he said, " the honor to know M. Mazzini for a series of' years ; and whatever I may think of his practical...sterling veracity, humanity, and nobleness of mind. Whether tho extraneous Austrian emperor and miserable old chimera of a popo shall maintain themselves... | |
 | Giuseppe Mazzini - 1872 - 414 pages
...— none farther, or very few, of living men. I have had the honor to know M. Mazzini for a series of years ; and, whatever I may think of his practical...with great freedom testify to all men that he, if ever I have seen one such, is a man of genius and virtue, a man of sterling veracity, humanity, and... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1872 - 536 pages
...Mazzini's " practical insight and skill in worldly affairs," he knew him to be, if ever he had seen such, " a man of genius and virtue, a man of sterling veracity, humanity, and nobleness of mind." By that time also, other persons of distinction in the metropolis, knowing Mazzini by his more purely... | |
 | Joseph Irving - 1880 - 1066 pages
...67. . — Thomas Carlyle writes to the Times: " I have had the honour to know M. Mazzini for a series of years ; and whatever I may think of his practical...affairs, I can with great freedom testify to all men tíat he, if I have ever seen one such, is a man of genius and virtue, a man of sterling veracity,... | |
 | Joseph Irving - 1880 - 1064 pages
...67. — Thomas Carlyle writes to the Times: " I hive hail the honour to know M. Mazzini for a señes of years ; and whatever I may think of his practical insight and skill in worldly oaairs, I can w:.ih great freedom testify to all ibcn thai he, if I have ever seen one such, is a man... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1881 - 980 pages
...Secretary, he took up the cudgels stoutly. " He, if ever I have seen such," he wrote to The Times, " is a man of genius and virtue, a man of sterling veracity, humanity and openness of mind ; one of those rare men, numerable, unfortunately, but as units in this world, who... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - 1881 - 414 pages
...— none farther, or very few of living men. I have had the honour to know Mr. Mazxiui for a series of years ; and, whatever I may think of his practical insight and skill iu worldly affairs, I can with great freedom testify to all men that he, if I have ever seen one such,... | |
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