Hereditary geniusD. Appleton, 1891 - 390 pages |
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1st Earl 1st Earl Temple 1st Lord 2d Earl ability able ablest average Baron became Bishop brother Cæsar Cambridge champion chapter Charles Charles Hutton Charles II child column commanders created Earl created Lord daughter degree descendants Died æt diplomatist disposition distinguished Divines Duke eminent relations England equal excellent father France gemmules genius George George Grenville Governor-General of India grades grandson Grenville heiress Henry hereditary Hutton illustrious intellectual Ireland James Judges Julius Cæsar kinship Lady Hester Stanhope literary lived Lord Chancellor Lord Keeper male Marquess of Wellesley marriage married Maurice of Nassau minister Montagu mother Napier natural gifts Newcastle painter Pangenesis peerages Pitt poet powers Premier race religious remarkable reputation Richard rower scholar Secretary selection senior classic senior wrangler Sir Edward Sir John Sir Thomas Sir William sister sons statesman Vict youth
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Page 156 - UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, SIDNEY'S sister, PEMBROKE'S mother ; Death ! ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 95 - Dean of the Arches and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Page 1 - I propose to show in this book that a man's natural abilities are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as are the form and physical features of the whole organic world.
Page 336 - Extract from Preface. SIGHT : An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision. By JOSEPH LE CONTE, LL. D., author of "Elements of Geology"; "Religion and Science"; and Professor of Geology and Natural History in the University of California.
Page 335 - The ORIGIN of CIVILISATION and the PRIMITIVE CONDITION of MAN ; Mental and Social Condition of Savages.
Page 14 - I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort.
Page 115 - Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field?
Page 37 - By natural ability, I mean those qualities of intellect and disposition, which urge and qualify a man to perform acts that lead to reputation. I do not mean capacity without zeal, nor zeal without capacity, nor even a combination of both of them, without an adequate power of doing a great deal of very laborious work.
Page 19 - The precise number of marks obtained by the senior wrangler in the more remarkable of these two years was 7,634; by the second wrangler in the same year, 4,123; and by the lowest man in the list of honours, only 237. Consequently, the senior wrangler obtained nearly twice as many marks as the second wrangler, and more than thirty-two times as many as the lowest man.
Page 292 - It is the second and third-rate students who are usually weakly. A collection of living magnates in various branches of intellectual achievement is always a feast to my eyes; being, as they are, such massive, vigorous, capable-looking animals.