 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 páginas
...illuminates the hills while it is still below the horizon, and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude....time, be visible to those who lie far beneath them." These remarks were penned in illustration of the truth that the stock of human knowledge will be increased... | |
 | 1833 - 564 páginas
...reflection we have Life."f • The image, here presented, was finely applied by Mr. Macaulay in Ms article on Dryden, in the Edinburgh Review: " The...light, which, without their assistance, must in a short lime be visible to those who lie far beneath them." There is an analogous allusion in Mackintosh's... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 páginas
...illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude....time, be visible to those who lie far beneath them. The same remark will apply equally to the fine arts. The laws on which depend the progress and decline... | |
 | John Hopkins Morison - 1845 - 544 páginas
...mankind. Even as the sun illuminates the hills while it is yet below the horizon, the highest minds are the first to catch and reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must in time be visible to those who lie far beneath them. Light did not come to Washington sooner than to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon; and truth is discovered by the highest minds work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of...of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly end reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must, in a short time, be visible to those who... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 páginas
...illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their Buperiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must,... | |
 | 1850 - 396 páginas
...illuminates the hills, while it je still below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest mimls a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude....short time, be visible to those who lie far beneath it." — Macavlay1* Etiayt, American Edition, p. 36. The habits of artificial life follow far behind... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude....time, be visible to those •who lie far beneath them. The same remark will apply equally to the 4ne arts. The laws on which depend the progress and decline... | |
 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...illuminates the hills, while it is stilt below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest minds F:g= ?N> ; =1> = > : ?e< ? ? - . / <>: The same remark will apply equally to the ine arts. The laws on which depend the progress and decline... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 páginas
...illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude....time, be visible to those who lie far beneath them. The same remark will apply equally to the ine arts. The laws on which depend the progress and decline... | |
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The sun illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a... 
