 ... character, the amiable qualities of the apostle's, and the rigid disinterestedness of the intolerant reformer's, as warmly as if the former had never domineered in- the Vatican, and the latter had not outraged, the one all taste and decorum by his...  Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen - Seite 16141846Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 560 Seiten
...outraged, the one all taste and decorum by his language, the other all humanity by his cruelty. But it is a merit of as high an order, and one which distinguishes...his sagacity never fails him — here his scepticism is never hurtful. The admirable tract in which he assembled a large body of his critical doubts under... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1845 - 586 Seiten
...outraged, the one all taste and decorum by his language, the other all humanity by his cruelty. But it is a merit of as high an order, and one which distinguishes...his sagacity never fails him — here his scepticism is never hurtful. The admirable tract in which he assembled a large body of his critical doubts under... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 582 Seiten
...outraged, the one all taste and decorum by his language, the other all humanity by his cruelty. But it is a merit of as high an order, and one which distinguishes...general belief of mankind. Here his sagacity never fails him—here his scepticism is never hurtful. The admirable tract in which he assembled a large body... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 Seiten
...outraged, the one all taste and decorum by his language, the other all humanity by his cruelty. But it is a merit of as high an order, and one which distinguishes...supported by the authority of particular historians or avouched by the general belief of mankind. Here his sagacity never fails him — here his scepticism... | |
 | India. [Appendix.], Indian Officer - 1861 - 252 Seiten
...advance or strengthen some doubtful statement or monstrous hypothesis. " We should therefore exercise an unremitting caution in receiving improbable relations,...or vouched by the general belief of mankind. Here our sagacity should never fail us ; here our scepticism is never hurtful, — to exercise extreme caution... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 Seiten
...outraged, the one all taste and decorum by his language, the other all humanity by his cruelty. But it is a merit of as high an order, and one which distinguishes...supported by the authority of particular historians or avouched by the general belief of mankind. Here his sagacity never fails him — here his scepticism... | |
 | Voltaire - 1881 - 464 Seiten
...outraged, the one all taste and decorum by his language, the other all humanity by his cruelty. But it is a merit of as high an order, and one which distinguishes...supported by the authority of particular historians or avouched by the general belief of mankind. Here his sagacity never fails him — here his skepticism... | |
 | 1845 - 778 Seiten
...biographies of Charles XII. and Peter the Great is also properly discriminated : — " But it is a merit of as high an order, and one which distinguishes...supported by the authority of particular historians, or ST^^SFAtf ^HSwrss s, and are not injured o the study of one who was gT°P«>sJ?[ world are to be viewed.... | |
 | Voltaire - 1887 - 458 Seiten
...receiving improbable relations, whether supported by the authority of particular historians or avouched bv the general belief of mankind. Here his sagacity never fails him — here his skepticism is never hurtful. The admirable tract in which he assembled a large body of his critical... | |
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