An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steam-engine. But there are... The Library Magazine - Page 5301887Full view - About this book
| 1837 - 608 pages
...world with long words and long beards; and they left it as wicked and as ignorant as the-v found it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is betler than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no... | |
| 1838 - 822 pages
...world with long words and long beards; and they left it as wicked and as ignorant as they found it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality...no doubt, be a grander object than a steam-engine. Bui liiere are steam-engines ; and the wise man of the Stoics is yel lo be born, A philosophy which... | |
| 1838 - 870 pages
...world with long words and long beards; and they left it as wicked and as ignorant as they found il. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is belter than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...world with long words and long beards ; and they left it as wicked and as ignorant as they found it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality...And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born. A philosophy which should enable a man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain, may be better... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...the most ignorant ciown, by the most thoughtless school-boy, by the very child at the breast." '• An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality...And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born." " The noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse." " It is by giving faith... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pages
...world with long words and long beards ; and they left it as wicked and as ignorant as they found it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality...steam-engines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be bora. A philosophy which should enable a man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain, may... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pages
...world with long words and long beards ; and they left it as wicked and as ignorant as they found it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality...And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born. A philosophy which should enable a man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain would be better... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 pages
...world with long words and long beards; and they left it as wicked and as ignorant as they found it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality...steam-engines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to he born. A philosophy which should enable a man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain, may... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...world with long words and long beards ; and they left it as wicked and as ignorant as they found it. t take upon ourselves the invidious office of A philosophy which should enable a man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain, may be better... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 pages
...world with long words and long beards; and they left it as wicked and as ignorant as they found it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality...And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born. A philosophy which should enable a man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain would be better... | |
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