 | 1830 - 590 pages
...without a provocation. It is, indeed, most extraordinary that a mind ' like Mr. Southey's, — a mind richly endowed in many respects by ' nature, and highly...enlightened people that ever existed, — should be utterly des' titute of the power of discerning truth from falsehood. Yet such is ' the fact. Government is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...hating without a provocation. It is, indeed, most extraordinary that a mind like Mr. Southey's, a mind richly endowed in many respects by nature, and highly...exercised considerable influence on the most enlightened genera* Sir Thomas More ; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. By ROBERT SOUTHEY,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...hating without a provocation. It is, indeed, most extraordinary that a mind like Mr. Southey's, a mind richly endowed in many respects by nature, and highly...utterly destitute of the power of discerning truth from * Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. By ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq.,... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1872 - 500 pages
...extraordinary that so much ignorance should exist on this subject. I, 216: It is extraordinary that Mr. Southey should be utterly destitute of the power of discerning truth from falsehood. II, 105 : To many persons it appears extraordinary that Henry the Eighth should have been able to maintain... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 pages
...the beginning: "It is indeed most extraordinary that a mind like Mr. Southey's, a mind richly endowed by nature and highly cultivated by study, a mind which...discerning truth from falsehood. Yet such is the fact." Again: "In the mind of Mr. Southey, reason has no place at all, as either leader or follower, as either... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...hating without a provocation. It is, indeed, most extraordinary that a mind like Mr. Southey's, a mind richly endowed in many respects by nature and highly...exercised considerable influence on the most enlightened peneration of the most enlightened people that ever existed, should be utterly destitute of the power... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...mind like Mr. Soulhey's, a mind richly endowed in wany respects by nature and highly cultivated Ьт study, a mind which has exercised considerable influence on the most enlightened pneration of the most enlightened people that wr existed, should be utterly destitute of the fewer... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...hating without a provocation. It is, indeed, most extraordinary that a mind like Mr. Southey's, a mind richly endowed in many respects by nature and highly cultivated by study, a mind wliich has exercised considerable influence on the most enlightened generation of the most enlightened... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 616 pages
...happy as to defy improvement. The one is a sharp ' 'rammatic paragraQh on Southey's political bias : Government is to Mr. Southey one of the fine arts. He judges of a theory or a public meaaure, of a religion, a political party, a peace or a war, as men judge of a picture or a statue,... | |
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... the most enlightened generation of the most enlightened people that ever existed, should be utterly destitute of the power of discerning truth from falsehood. Yet such is the fact. 
