His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt. Lord Macaulay's Essays ; And, Lays of Ancient Rome - Stran 636avtor: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 924 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 684 strani
...limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity,...of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1900 - 508 strani
...independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavorable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It...of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of •Macaulay, vi. 549; "Warren Hastings." •Ibid. 553. Juvenal, or... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 322 strani
...to his body. It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance; but its sup10 pleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates...of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the 15 dark ages. What the horns are to... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 534 strani
...and Harwell as of. " an excessively strong constitution" (Stephen, Nuncomar and I mpcy, i. , p. 41). but its suppleness and its tact move the children...of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 522 strani
...Barwell as of " an excessively strong constitution " (Stephen, Nuitsamar ami Impty, i. , p. 41). bnt its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner...of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1904 - 520 strani
...limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity,...unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are tho natural defence of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 216 strani
...independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally . unfavorable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It...which are the natural defence of the weak are more famil;.S\. iar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the... | |
| Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1908 - 456 strani
...breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situations are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a singular...of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1908 - 534 strani
...limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity,...helplessness, for purposes of manly resistance; but its supplenessand its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1910 - 326 strani
...independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavorable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It...and its tact move the children of sterner climates 10 to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural defense of the weak... | |
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