 | Francis Augustus Cox - General Baptist mission - 1842 - 464 pages
...purposes of manly resistance; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration, not unmingled with contempt. All those...were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting... | |
 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those...the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...purposes of manly resistance; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those...the natural defence of the weak, are more familiar with this subtle race than to the Ionian of the times of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the 184 natural defence of the weak, are more familiar this subtle race than to the Ionian of the times... | |
 | Shoemakers - 1849 - 356 pages
...modern writer, " arc qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavorable. All those arts which are the natural defence of the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What horns are to the buffalo,... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - Bengal (India) - 1854 - 410 pages
...purposes of manly resistance, but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration, not unmingled with contempt. All those...the darkest ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what^the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek... | |
 | 1855 - 802 pages
...purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration, not unmingled with contempt. All those...natural defence of the weak, are more familiar to thi« subtile race, than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of the darkest... | |
 | Norman Chevers - Medical jurisprudence - 1856 - 628 pages
...purposes of manly resistance, but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration, not unmingled with contempt. All those...the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffaloe,... | |
 | Medicine - 1856 - 590 pages
...for purposes of manly resistance, but its suppleness and tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration, not unmingled with contempt. All those...the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1088 pages
...purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those...the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo,... | |
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All those arts which are the natural defence of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is... 
