 | 1835 - 932 pages
...pronounce any judgment; we cannot, even in our own minds, form any judgment on a transaction which is so imperfectly known to us. It would have been well...so ridiculous as the British public in one of its jR-riodical Qts of morality. In general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels, pass with little... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...pronounce any judgment; we cannot, even in our own minds, form any judgment on a transaction which it l princes down to the cultivators of the soil. The danger to the hierarchy for* bearauce, which, under such circumstances, U but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...pronounce any judgment; we cannot, even in our own minds, form any judgment on a transaction which is so imperfectly known to us. It would have been well if, at the lime of the separation, all those who knew as little about the matter then as we know about it now,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 128 pages
...pronounce any judgment, we cannot, even in our own minds, form any judgment, on a transaction which is so imperfectly known to us. It would have been well...which, under such circumstances, is but common justice. ••"V.-r."**. / We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...our own minds, form any judgment on a transaction which ii so imperfectly known to us. It would hare been well if, at the time of the separation, all those...that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, ia but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 500 pages
...pronounce any judgment, we cannot, even in our own minds, form any judgment, on a transaction which is so imperfectly known to us. It would have been well...We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British jMblic in one of its periodical fits of morality. In general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels,... | |
 | J. M - 1869 - 232 pages
...pronounce any judgment, we cannot, even in our own minds, form any judgment on a transaction which is so imperfectly known to us. It would have been well...separation, all those who knew as little about the matter as we know about it now, had shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, is but common... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pages
...judgment, we cannot, even in our own minds, form any judgment on a transaction which is so i .nperfectly known to us. It would have been well if, at the time of the reparation, all those who knew as little about the matter then as we know about it now had shown that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1875 - 876 pages
...pronounce any judgment, we cannot, even in onr own minds, form any judgment, on a transaction which is so imperfectly known to us. It would have been well...that forbearance which, under such circumstances, is bnt common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous «• the British public in one of its periodical... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. On Moore's Life of Lord Byron. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. ibid. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,... | |
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. 
