 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 294 páginas
...•have naturally gone far beyond him. He says ( Works, Vol. V., p. 152): "I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own : yet I have endeavoured to perform my task with no slight solicitude. Not a single passage in the whole work has appeared to me corrupt which... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 páginas
...little ; for raising in the publick expectations which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 páginas
...little ; for raising in the publick expectations, which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Condell, John Heminge, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 634 páginas
...little ; for raising in the publick expectations, which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It ia hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think... | |
 | 1909 - 498 páginas
...little ; for raising in the publick expectations, which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 páginas
...little; for raising in the publick expectations which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 páginas
...little ; for raising in the publie, expectations which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
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I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude. 
