...sympathy is incompatible with diguity of character in a man, or with diguity of style in a writer. Of nil the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect...necessarily the few and the many of the passing time: for discoveries in science have not unoften, in tlieir oven day, had the few against them ; and writers...

...try and deduce from it a corollary not in the book. Spare no pains in collecting details before you generalise; but it is only when details are generalised...them; and writers the most permanently popular not unfrequently found, in their own day, a frigid reception from the many. By the few, I mean those who...

...of a mind which may have no special aptitude for any. Invention implies the power of generalization, for an invention is but the combining of many details...them, and writers the most permanently popular not unfrequently found, in their own day, a frigid reception from the many. By the few, I mean those who...

...of a mind which may have no special aptitude for any. Invention implies the power of generalization, for an invention is but the combining of many details...them, and writers the most permanently popular not unfrequently found, in their o\m day, a frigid reception from the many. By the few, I mean those who...

...fellow scientists, whereas the poet speaks to a more diverse audience. As Edward Bulwer-Lytton observes: "In science, address the few; in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the 258 many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgment on the few.'"" Often fine...

...Pt XI. Ch. Vu Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1831-91 ('Owen Meredith') English poet, diplomatist and statesman In science, address the few. in literature, the many....sooner or later, force their judgment on the few. Caxtoniana 'Readers and Writers' There's nothing certain in man's life but this: That he must lose...