 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1876 - 836 pages
...published after his deceitse, — at Hunk, and never for a moment forgot tlmt he wan an Honourable, — at the practice of Entail, and tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie Up hid villa in the strictest settlement. *' The conformation of bin mind was such that whatever was little... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1875 - 876 pages
...forgot that he was an Honourable j at the practice of entail, and tasked the ingenuity of conveyancer* to tie up his villa in the strictest settlement The...to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him liitle. Serious business was a trifle to him, and trifles were his serious business. To chat with blue... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1875 - 380 pages
...under the moon is subject to corruption. 14. He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me. 15. Whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little, Relative with antecedent demonstrative (Persons). 84. He that, he who ; They that, they who, (they... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1877 - 898 pages
...be published after his decease ; at rank, and never for a moment forgot that he was an Honourable ; at the practice of entail, and tasked the ingenuity...conformation of his mind was such that whatever was littlo seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. Serious business was a trifle... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1914 - 1764 pages
...scientific and economic questions. Lord Macaulay said that the formation of the mind of Horace Waipole ' ' was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little." Sooner or later the man in the street, the layer between the upper and the lower crust, decides our... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - English literature - 1883 - 1254 pages
...be published after his decease ; at rank, and never for a moment forgot that he was an Honourable ; at the practice of entail, and tasked the ingenuity...conveyancers to tie up his villa in the strictest settlecent. The conformation of his mind was such tbat whatever was little seemed le him gvcnt, and... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 844 pages
...unhealthy and disorganised mind could have produr.ed such literary luxuries as the works of Waipole. .... The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him С it, »nd whatever was great seemed to him little, ous business was a trine to him, and trifles were... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1885 - 916 pages
...was an Honourable ; at the practice of entail, an I tasked the ingenuity of conveyancer* to lie np $ each that whatever was little seemed lo him great, and whatever was great teemed to him little. Scrions... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...too simple to admire it. On Bnngan's Pilyrim's Progrtn. 1831. The conformation of his mind was snch that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. On Horace Walpolc. 1833. What a singnlar destiny has heen that of this remarkahle man ! — To he regarded... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Soul. Stern men with empires in their brains. x. LOWELL — The Siglow Papers. Second Series. No. 2. ehiel Keeler y, MACAULAY — On Horace Walpole. 886 MIND. MISCHIEF. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can... | |
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... scandal; at society, and was blown about by its slightest veerings of opinion ; at literary fame, and left fair copies of his private letters, with copious notes, to be published after his decease ; at rank, and never for a moment forgot that he was... 
