 A letter is extant in which Lady Chatham, a woman of considerable abilities, remarked to her lord that their younger son at twelve had left far behind him his elder brother, who was fifteen. " The fineness, " she wrote, " of : William's mind makes him...  Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays - Seite 223von Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 644 Seiten
...state of his constitution, than to the fineness of his mind, which makes him enjoy with the highest pleasure what would be above the reach of any other creature of his small age. The young lieutenant may not, perhaps, go quite so deep ; but the vanity of being with papa, and the... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 626 Seiten
...state of his constitution, than to the fineness of his mind, which makes him enjoy with the highest pleasure what would be above the reach of any other creature of his small age. The young lieutenant may not, perhaps, go quite so deep ; but the vanity of being with papa, and the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 460 Seiten
...his elder brother, who was fifteen. " The fineness," she wrote, " of William's mind makes him enjoy with the greatest pleasure what would be above the...age." At fourteen the lad was in intellect a man. Hay ley, who met him at Lyme in the summer of 1773, was astonished, delighted, and somewhat overawed,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1862 - 496 Seiten
...write as follows to her husband : — " The fineness of William's mind makes him enjoy with the highest pleasure what would be above the reach of any other creature of his small age. The young Lieutenant may not perhaps go quite so deep."3 This young Lieutenant was Lord Pitt, the eldest... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 458 Seiten
...his elder brother, who was fifteen. " The fineness," she wrote, " of William's mind makes him enjoy with the greatest pleasure what would be above the reach of any other creature of his email age." At fourteen the lad was in intellect a man. Hayley, who met him at Lyme in the summer of... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 514 Seiten
...temporary absence from home, — " The fineness of William's mind makes him enjoy with the highest pleasure what would be above the reach of any other creature of his small age." He probably felt this " highest pleasure " when engaged in the composition of a tragedy in blank verse... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 516 Seiten
...temporary absence from home, — il The fineness of William's mind makes him enjoy with the highest pleasure what would be above the reach of any other creature of his small age." He probably felt this " highest pleasure " when engaged in the composition of a tragedy in blank verse... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1879 - 354 Seiten
...mathematician. " The fineness of William's mind," writes his mother, " makes him enjoy with the highest pleasure what would be above the reach of any other creature of his small age." He had such exquisite quickness in grasping the meaning of an author, that his tutor once remarked,... | |
 | 1880 - 812 Seiten
...elder brother, who was fifteen. " The fineness, " she wrote, " of : William's mind makes him enjoy with the greatest pleasure what would be above the...wisdom from so young a mouth. The poet, indeed, was afterward sorry that his shyness had prevented him from submitting the plan of an extensive literary... | |
 | 1880 - 832 Seiten
...bis elder brother, who was fifteen. " The fineness," she wrote, " of William's mind makes him enjoy with the greatest pleasure what would be above the...in the summer of 1773,' was astonished, delighted, und somewhat overawed, by hearing wit and wisdom from so young a mouth. The poet, indeed, was afterward... | |
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