 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...little uneasy at Exeter 'Change, from contrasting the monkeys with the 'prentice-boys who are teazing them; but a few pages of Locke, or a few lines of Milton, have always restored me to tranquillity, and convinced me that the superiority of man had nothing to fear. Philosophers have been... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...as high treason to the dignity of man. '• There may, perhaps, be more of rashness and ill-ftated security in my opinion, than of magnanimity or liberality...a few lines of Milton, have always restored me to tranquillity, and convinced me that the superiority of man had nothing to fear." (P. 238.) In an enumeration... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...as high treason to the dignity of man. '• There may, perhaps, be more of rashness and ill-ftated security in my opinion, than of magnanimity or liberality...a few lines of Milton, have always restored me to tranquillity, and convinced me that the superiority of man had nothing to fear." (P. 238.) In an enumeration... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...so sure that the blue ape without a tail will never rival us in poetry, painting, and music,—that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done...contrasting the monkeys with the 'prentice boys who are teazing them ; but a few pages of Locke, or a few lines of Milton, have always restored me to tranquillity,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 428 pages
...perhaps, felt a little uneasy at Exeter 'Change, from contrasting the monkeys with the 'prentice-boys who are teasing them ; but a few pages of Locke, or...a few lines of Milton, have always restored me to tranquillity, and convinced me that the superiority of man had nothing to fear. Philosophers have been... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...perhaps, felt a little uneasy at Exeter 'Change, from contrasting the monkeys with the 'prentice-boys who are teasing them ; but a few pages of Locke, or...a few lines of Milton, have always restored me to tranquillity, and convinced me that the superiority of man had nothing to fear. Philosophers have been... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 474 pages
...little uneasy at Exeter 'Change, from contrasting the monkeys with the 'prentice-boys who are teazing them ; but a few pages of Locke, or a few lines of Milton, have always restored me to tranquillity, and convinced me that the superiority of man had nothing to fear. Philosophers have been... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...little uneasy at Exeter 'Change, from contrasting the monkeys with the 'prentice-boys who are teazing them ; but a few pages of Locke, or a few lines of Milton, have always restored me to tranquillity, and convinced me that the superiority of man had nothing to fear. — Sydney Smith. POPE... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 704 pages
...little uneasy at Exeter 'Change, for contrasting the monkeys with the 'prentice boys who are teazing them ; but a few pages of Locke, or a few lines of Milton has always restored me to tranquillity, and convinced me that the superiority of man had nothing to... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...little uneasy at Exeter 'Change, from contrasting the monkeys with the 'prentice-boys who are teazing them ; but a few pages of Locke, or a few lines of Milton, have always restored me to tranquillity, and convinced me that the superiority of man had nothing to fear. — Sydney Smith. POPE... | |
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I have yet seen, — I feel so sure that the blue ape without a tail will never rival us in poetry, painting, and music, — that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul, and tatters of understanding, which they... 
