... sickly them o'er with the pale cast of thought "; it enables, them to do the good things they see to be good, as well as to see that they are good. And it is plain that a government by popular discussion tends to produce this quality. A strongly idiosyncratic... The Works of Walter Bagehot ... - Página 576por Walter Bagehot - 1891Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1862 - 454 páginas
...Clough, because we believe that his poems depict an intellect in a state which is always natural " to such a being as man in such a world as the present," which is peculiarly natural to us just now ; and because we believe that many of these poems are very... | |
| 1907 - 850 páginas
...colored" variety, with its Inevitable downfall of vice and triumph of virtue. It is concise; but, to "such a being as man in such a world as the present," not quite conclusive. As a sentimentalist, Dickens was peculiarly assailable on the pathetic side.... | |
| 1907 - 848 páginas
...colored" variety, with its inevitable downfall of vice and triumph of virtue. It is concise; but, to "such a being as man In such a world as the present," not quite conclusive. As a sentimentalist, Dickens was peculiarly assailable on the pathetic side.... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1864 - 608 páginas
...the refined, witty, elegant immorality of an idle aristocracy. They describe a life " unsuitable to such a being as man in such a world as the present one, ' m which there are no high aims, no severe duties, where some precepts of morals seem not so much... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1862 - 448 páginas
...Clough, because we believe that his poems depict an intellect in a state which is always natural " to such a being as man in such a world as the present," which is peculiarly natural to us just now; and because we believe that many of these poems are very... | |
| 1864 - 66 páginas
...the refined, witty, elegant immorality of an idle aristocracy. They describe a life " unsuitable to such a being as man in such a world as the present one," in which there are no high aims, no severe duties, where some precepts of morals seem not so much to... | |
| 1872 - 752 páginas
...for sufficient perception ; but it does not make men all intellect ; it does not " sickly them over with the pale cast of thought ; " it enables them...a being as man in such a world as the present one. These three great benefits of free government, though great, are entirely secondary to its continued... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1881 - 286 páginas
...there was a great trace in him of mediocria firma — as much, probably, as there could be in anyone of such great vivacity and buoyancy. It is plain that...a being as man in such a world as the present one. These three great benefits of free government, though great, are entirely secondary to its continued... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 470 páginas
...has a defect. It is not, as Bishop Butler would have expressed it, such a style as "is suitable to such a being as man, in such a world as the present one,"* — it is too omniscient. Everything is too plain; all is clear, nothing is doubtful. Instead of probability... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 482 páginas
...Clough, because we believe that his poems depict an intellect in a state which is always natural ' to such a being as man in such a world as the present,' which is peculiarly natural to us just now ; and because we believe that many of these poems are very... | |
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