Biographical Sketches, 1852-1875Macmillan, 1888 - Всего страниц: 499 |
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Стр. 465 - The character of the true philosopher is to hope all things not impossible, and to believe all things not unreasonable.
Стр. 377 - He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the Irish bar. In 1832, however, he emigrated to Canada, and settled in the township of Oro in Upper Canada.
Стр. 186 - Is this true ?" It is not enough to believe what you maintain ; you must maintain what you believe ; and maintain it because you believe it, and that, on the most careful and impartial review of the evidence on both sides.
Стр. 219 - Though the senses were thus deadened, not so the mind ; its activity seemed to be invigorated, in a ratio which defies all description, for thought rose above thought with a rapidity of succession that is not only indescribable, but probably inconceivable by any one who has not himself been in a similar situation.
Стр. 340 - He swept away all hearts, whithersoever he would. No less striking was it to see him in a mood of repose, as...
Стр. 340 - Our pleasant follies are made the whips to scourge us,' as Lear says, for otherwise what could possibly stand in the way of his nomination ? I trust it will take place, and give him the consistence and steadiness which are all he wants to make him the first man of the age.
Стр. xxxiii - ... and suggestive powers, and therefore nothing approaching to genius, she could see clearly what she did see, and give a clear expression to what she had to say. In short, she could popularise, while she could neither discover nor invent She could obtain and keep a firm grasp of her own views, and moreover she could make them understood.
Стр. 155 - Had you any conversation with Brougham? He is an uncommon genius, of a composite order, if you allow me to use the expression; he unites the greatest ardour for general information in every branch of knowledge, and, what is more remarkable, activity in the business, and interest in the pleasures of the world, with all the powers of a mathematical intellect.
Стр. 411 - That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one.
Стр. 466 - ... them some principle which it never occurred before to try, will surely be the very last to acquiesce in any dispiriting prospects of either the present or future destinies of mankind; while, on the other hand, the boundless views of intellectual and moral as well as material relations which open on him on all hands in the course of these pursuits, the knowledge of the trivial place he occupies in the scale of creation...