 materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted." ' How much this letter pleased Macaulay is indicated by the fact of his having kept it unburned : a compliment which, except in this single instance, he never...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5691876Full view - About this book
 | Sir George Otto Trevelyan - 1878 - 552 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with a subject upon which the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper in which the search...instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents. " I have very seldom," he writes in reply to Mr. Gladstone, " been more gratified than by the very... | |
 | Sir George Otto Trevelyan - 1878 - 540 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with a subject upon which the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper in which the search...instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents. " I have very seldom," he writes in reply to Mr. Gladstone, " been more gratified than by the very... | |
 | Sir George Otto Trevelyan - 1878 - 540 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with a subject upon which the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper in which the search...instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents. “I have very seldom,” he writes in reply to Mr. Gladstone, “been more gratified than by the very... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - English literature - 1879 - 266 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with the subject; inasmuch as the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper, in which the search for it is instituted and conducted. " 1 did not mean to have troubled you at so much length, and I have only to add that I am, with much... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - Great Britain - 1879 - 266 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with the subject; inasmuch as the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper, in which the search for it is instituted and conducted. " I did not mean to have troubled you at so much length, and I have only to add that I am, with much... | |
 | George Smith - Great Britain - 1879 - 140 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with a subject upon which the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted." There is only one other instance which we can recall, in the annals of literature and the records of... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 552 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with a subject upon which the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper in which the search...conducted.' How much this letter pleased Macaulay, Mr. Trevelyan remarks, is indicated by the fact of his having kept it unburned—a compliment which,... | |
 | sir George Otto Trevelyan (2nd bart.) - 1881 - 732 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with a subject upon which the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper in which the search...instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents. " I have very seldom," he writes in reply to Mr. Gladstone, "been more gratified than by the very kind... | |
 | George Rose Emerson - 1881 - 472 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with the subject, upon which we shall agree the attainment of truth so materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted. 1833.] VISIT TO ITALY. 49 " I did not mean to have troubled you at so much length, and I have only... | |
 | George Rose Emerson - 1882 - 360 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with the subject, upon which we shall agree the attainment of truth so materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted. " I did not mean to have troubled you at so much length, and I have only to add that I am, with much... | |
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