... investigation. His mind is of large grasp ; nor is he deficient in dialectical skill. But he does not give his intellect fair play. There is no want of light, but a great want of what Bacon would have called dry light. Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Stran 2331839Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1902 - 872 strani
...called dry light. Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees is refracted and distorted by a false medium of passion and prejudices. His style bears a remarkable analogy...thinking, and, indeed, exercises great influence on bis mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens and perplexes the logic... | |
| 1877 - 564 strani
...Bacon would have called dry tight. Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees is refracted and distorted by a false medium of passions and prejudices. His style bears...perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his Muteness, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 strani
...Bacon would have called dry light. Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees is refracted and distorted by a false medium of passions and prejudices. His style bears...acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination anda scanty vocabulary, wouldhave saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 342 strani
...Bacon would have called dry light. Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees is refracted and distorted by a false medium of passions and prejudices. His style bears...of thinking , and indeed exercises great influence onhis mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens and perplexes the logic... | |
| Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 strani
...Bacon would have called dry light. Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees is refracted and distorted by a false medium of passions and prejudices. His style bears...often good of its kind, darkens and perplexes the lojjic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a harren imagination and... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 strani
...but a great want of what Bacon would have called dry light. His rhetoric, though often good of iis kind, darkens and perplexes the logic which it should...acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from all his mistakes. * * The book,- though not a good book,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 strani
...Bacon would have called dry lighr. Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees is refracted and distorted by a false They still retained the predatory habits of their forefathers. ils kind. darkens and perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 450 strani
...Bacon would have called dry light. Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees is refracted and distorted by a false medium of passions and prejudices. His style bears...imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved Mm from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator, a vast command of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 strani
...Bacon would have called dry light. Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees is refracted and distorted by a false medium of passions and prejudices. His style bears...His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens tnd perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 954 strani
...Bacon would have called dry light. Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees is refracted and distorted by a false medium of passions and prejudices. His style bears...His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens uid perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren... | |
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