The Works of Lord Morley, Tom 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1921 |
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Strona 34 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Strona 187 - ... solve senescentem mature sanus equum, ne peccet ad extremum ridendus et ilia ducat.
Strona 71 - A pang shot through the child, that seemed to go from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet " Are you awake, Daisy ?•" " Yes, mamma,
Strona 155 - ... disinterested persons than Frederick set as low a value on Raynal's performance. One writer even compares the book to a quack mounted on a waggon, retailing to the gaping crowd a number of commonplaces against despotism and religion, without a single curious thing about them except their hardihood.2 But the instinct of the gaping crowd was sound.
Strona 115 - what other motive than self-interest could determine a man to generous actions ? It is as impossible for him to love what is good for the sake of good, as to love evil for the sake of evil.
Strona 118 - ... even the indefatigable patience and inexhaustible ingenuity of Bentham will hardly succeed in defeating the sinister conspiracy of self-preferences. In fact, unless a little more sociality is allowed to an average human being, the problem of combining these egoists into an organisation for promoting their common happiness is like the old task of making ropes of sand. The difficulty that Hobbes vainly tried to settle summarily by absolute despotism is hardly to be overcome by the democratic artifices...
Strona 155 - It may perhaps be contended," he writes,1 " that the conception of history has, on the whole, gone back rather than advanced within the last hundred years. There have been signs in our own day of its becoming narrow, pedantic, and trivial. It threatens to degenerate from a broad survey of great periods and movements of human societies into vast and countless accumulations of insignificant facts, sterile knowledge, and frivolous antiquarianism...
Strona 69 - Interea magno misceri murmure pontum, Emissamque hiemem sensit Neptunus et imis Stagna refusa vadis, graviter commotus : et alto Prospiciens, summa placidum caput extulit unda.
Strona 92 - ... which I understand very well, one would make fine books, but very bad business. You forget in all your plans of reform the difference in our positions ; you only work on paper, which endures all things ; it opposes no obstacle either to your imagination or to your pen. But I, poor Empress as I am, work on the human skin, which is irritable and ticklish to a very different degree.
Strona 155 - Mceurs shows a perfectly true notion of what kind of history is worth either writing or reading. Robertson's View of the Progress of Society in Europe from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century is — with all its imperfections — admirably just, sensible, and historic in its whole scope and treatment. Raynal himself, though far below such writers as Voltaire and Robertson in judgment and temper, yet is not without a luminous breadth of outlook, and does not forget the superior importance...