...' he exclaims in a penitential note to the dialogue between Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastlc, 'Alas! my writings are not upon slate ; no finger...the storm and tempest — can efface the written.' Alas, then — for it is left us only to re-echo the lamentation — that calumny and ill -humour should...

...who are not for an age, but for all time. " What I write," he says, " is not written on slate, and no finger, not of Time himself, who dips it in the clouds of years, can efface it." The writing of more dialogues proceeded rapidly, and before 1829 he had published five...

...gave way immediately to my zeal in defence of my friend. What I write is not written on slate : and no finger, not of Time himself, who dips it in the clouds of years, can efface it. To condemn what is evil and to commend i what is good is consistent. To soften an asperity,...

...gave way immediately to my zeal in defence of my friend. What I write is not written on slate ; and no finger, not of Time himself, who dips it in the clouds of years, can efface it. To condemn what is evil and to commend what is good is consistent. To soften an asperity,...

...his death, turned Lander's anger into sorrow, and he was eager to make what amends he could. But, " alas, my writings are not upon slate : no finger,...the storm and tempest, can efface the " written." Leaving it therefore, he placed beneath it in his second edition a generous tribute to the better parts...

...Landor's anger into sorrow, and he was eager to make what amends he could. But, " alas, my writings arc not upon slate : no finger, " not of Time himself,...the storm and tempest, can efface the " written." Leaving it therefore, he placed beneath it in his second edition a generous tribute to the better parts...

...for nothing, and of valuing it above all price. Landor. What I write is not written on slate ; and no finger, not of Time himself, who dips it in the clouds of years, can efface it. To condemn what is evil and to commend what is good is consistent. To soften an asperity,...

...thoughts, were assailed by him too intemperately. Let any man who has been unfair or injurious to me, show that he has been so to me only, and I offer him my...forgiveness. Alas ! my writings are not upon slate : no ringer, not of Time himself, who dips it in the clouds of years and in the storm and tempest, can efface...

...thoughts "were assailed by him too intemperately. Let any man who has been unfair or injurious to me, show that he has been so to me only, and I offer him my...mere forgiveness. Alas ! my writings are not upon the slate : no finger, not of Time himself, who dips it in the clouds of years and in the storm and...

...thoughts, were assailed by him too intemperately. Let any man who has been unfair or injurious to me, show that he has been so to me only, and I offer him my...tempest, can efface the written. Let me be called what I may—I confess it, I am more inconsistent than he was. I do not talk of weeping or bewailing or lamenting,...