 And it is plain that a government by popular discussion tends to produce this quality : a strongly idiosyncratic mind, violently disposed to extremes of opinion, is soon weeded out of political life ; and a bodiless thinker, an ineffectual scholar, cannot...  The Fortnightly Review - Page 691872 - 28 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1862 - 454 pages
...Clough, because we believe that his poems depict an intellect in a state which is always natural " to such a being as man in such a world as the present," which is peculiarly natural to us just now ; and because we believe that many of these poems are very... | |
 | 1907 - 848 pages
...colored" variety, with its inevitable downfall of vice and triumph of virtue. It is concise; but, to "such a being as man In such a world as the present," not quite conclusive. As a sentimentalist, Dickens was peculiarly assailable on the pathetic side.... | |
 | 1907 - 850 pages
...colored" variety, with its Inevitable downfall of vice and triumph of virtue. It is concise; but, to "such a being as man in such a world as the present," not quite conclusive. As a sentimentalist, Dickens was peculiarly assailable on the pathetic side.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1864 - 608 pages
...the refined, witty, elegant immorality of an idle aristocracy. They describe a life " unsuitable to such a being as man in such a world as the present one, ' m which there are no high aims, no severe duties, where some precepts of morals seem not so much... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1862 - 448 pages
...Clough, because we believe that his poems depict an intellect in a state which is always natural " to such a being as man in such a world as the present," which is peculiarly natural to us just now; and because we believe that many of these poems are very... | |
 | 1864 - 66 pages
...the refined, witty, elegant immorality of an idle aristocracy. They describe a life " unsuitable to such a being as man in such a world as the present one," in which there are no high aims, no severe duties, where some precepts of morals seem not so much to... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 608 pages
...for sufficient perception : but it does not make men all intellect ; it does not "sickly them o'er with the pale cast of thought"*; it enables them to...being as man in such a world as the present one." f These three great benefits of free government, though great, are entirely secondary to its continued... | |
 | Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton - 1891 - 574 pages
...objects. The gross pursuit of pleasure and the tiresome pursuit of petty comfort are quite suitable to " such a being as man in such a world as the present one."* What is not possible is, to combine the pursuit of pleasure and the enjoyment of comfort with the characteristic... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 470 pages
...describe the refined, witty, elegant immorality of an idle aristocracy. They describe a life unsuitable to "such a being as man in such a world as the present one " f ; in which there are no high aims, no severe duties, where some precepts of morals seem not so... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 576 pages
...Clough, because we believe that his poems depict an intellect in a state which is always natural "to such a being as man in such a world as the present,"* which is peculiarly natural to us just now ; and because we believe that many of these poems are very... | |
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