 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 pages
...page ! It is probable that the classical acquirements of Addison were of as much service to him us if they had been more extensive. The world generally...man who does what nobody else even attempts to do, hut to the man who does best what multitudes do well. Bentley was so immeasurably superior to ali the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...readers with four false quantities to a page. It is probable that the classical acquirements of Addison were of as much service to him as if they had been...superior to all the other scholars of his time that few among them could discover his superiority. But the accomplishment in which Addison excelled his... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...readers with four false quantities to a page ! It is probable that the classical ticquirements of Addison were of as much service to him as if they had been...very few among them could discover his superiority. Bnt the accomplishment in which Addison excelled his contemporaries was then, as it is now, highly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...readers with four false quantities to a page. It is probable that the classical acquirements of Addison were of as much service to him as if they had been...man who does what nobody else even attempts to do, hut to the man who does best what multitudes do well. Bentley was so immeasurably superior to all the... | |
 | Oxford essays - 1855
...poetry. Each affords an exemplification of the truth of an acute remark made by the former,* that ' the world generally gives its admiration, not to the...to the man who does best what multitudes do well.' Each has won, and justly won, almost unbounded applause by a number of comparatively short pieces,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...readers with four false quantities to a page. It is probable that the classical acquirements of Addison were of as much service to him as if they had been...superior to all the other scholars of his time that few among them could discover his superiority. But the accomplishment in which Addison excelled his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 pages
...readers with four false quantities to a page. It is probable that the classical acquirements of Addison were of as much service to him as if they had been...superior to all the other scholars of his time that few among them could discover his superiority. But the accomplishment in which Addison excelled his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 644 pages
...readers with four false quantities to a page. It is probable that the classical acquirements of Addison were of as much service to him as if they had been...does best what multitudes do well. Bentley was so im-, measurably superior to all the other scholars of his time that few among them could discover his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 468 pages
...quantities to a page ! It is probable that the elassieal aequirements of Addison were of as mueh serviee to him as if they had been more extensive. The world...Bentley was so immeasurably superior to all the other seholars of his time that very few among them eould diseover his superiority. But the aeeomplishment... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 pages
...readers with four false quantities to a page. It is probable that the classical acquirements of Addison were of as much service to him as if they had been...superior to all the other scholars of his time that few among them could discover his superiority. But the accomplishment in which Addison excelled his... | |
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The world generally gives its admiration, not to the man who does what nobody else even attempts to do, but to the man who does best what multitudes do well. 
