...but this must not be misunderstood. It should be read side by side with the words of Thackeray. " He reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description." Harriet Martineau sneers at Gibbon in the words, " selfish, vain, unhappy man ! He studied law a year...

...this master, but the wonderful industry, the honest, humble previous toil of this great scholar. He reads twenty books to write a sentence; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners—not all—have seen the British Museum Library. I speak d coeur ouvert, and pray the...

...this master, but the wonderful industry, the honest, humble previous toil of this great scholar. He reads twenty books to write a sentence; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners—not all—have seen the British Museum Library. I speak d cceur ouvert, and pray the...

...this master, but the wonderful industry, the honest, humble previous toil of this great scholar. He reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners — not all — have seen the British Museum Library. I speak a caeur ouvert, and pray...

...How does he manage, in two or three words, to paint an individual, or to indicate a landscape ? He reads twenty books to write a sentence; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description! 14. One paper I have read regarding Lord Macaulay says "he had no heart." Why, a man's books may not...

...this master, but the wonderful industry, the honest, humble previous toil of this great scholar. He reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners — not all — have seen the British Museum Library. I speak a cieur ouvert, and pray...

...this master, but the wonderful industry, the honest, humble previous toil of this great scholar. He reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners—not all—Ixive seen the British Museum Library. I speak d cceur onrert, and pray...

...this master, but the wonderful industry, the honest, humble previous toil of this great scholar. He reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners—not all—have seen the British Museum Library. I speak d cxur onvert, and pray the...

...How doey he manage, in two or three words, to paint an individual, or to indicate a landscape ? He reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description! 14. One paper I have read regarding Lord Macaulay says "he had no heart." Why, a man's books may not...

...from all quarters, for his work. In truth Thackeray was guilty of no exaggeration when he said, " He reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description." This inexhaustible capacity of painstaking was one great secret of his success. And what a success!...