 ... his integrity, had resigned his independence, had violated the most sacred obligations of friendship and gratitude, had flattered the worthless, had persecuted the innocent, had tampered with judges, had tortured prisoners, had plundered suitors,...  A Century of Science and Other Essays - Page 383by John Fiske - 1899 - 477 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...judges, had tortured prisoners, had plundered suitors, had wasted on paltry intrigues all the powers of the most exquisitely constructed intellect that has...ever been bestowed on any of the children of men. A sudden and terrible reverse was at hand. A Parliament had been summoned. After six years of silence... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...judges, had tortured prisoners, had plundered suitors, had wasted on paltry intrigues all the powers of the most exquisitely constructed intellect that has...ever been bestowed on any of the children of men. A sudden and terrible reverse was at hand. A Parliament had been summoned. After six years of silence,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...judges, had tortured prisoners, had plundered suitors, had wasted on paltry intrigues all the powers of the most exquisitely constructed intellect that has...ever been bestowed on any of the children of men. A sudden and terrible reverse was at hand. A Parliament had been summoned. After six years of silence... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...tortured prisoners, and had wasted on paltry intrigues all the powers of the most exquisitely-constructed intellect that has ever been bestowed on any of the children of men 1" There have been conflicting statements as to the manner in which Bacon bore himself during the anxious... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1845 - 474 pages
...effluence of (I quote from a resplendent article on Bacon in the Edinburgh Review) " all the powers of the most exquisitely constructed intellect that has...ever been bestowed on any of the children of men," he has not disdained to allude to that part alone of SUBMARINE STEAM-bOCOMOTIVE ENGINE. 343 the craft... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1845 - 488 pages
...effluence of (I quote from a resplendent article on Bacon in the Edinburgh Review) "all the powers of the most exquisitely constructed intellect that has...ever been bestowed on any of the children of men," he has not disdained to allude to that part alone of SUBMARINE STEAM-LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE. 343 the craft... | |
 | 1846 - 586 pages
...tortured prisoners, and had wasted on paltry mtrigues all the powers of the most exquisitely constituted intellect that has ever been bestowed on any of the children of men." Surely this is the lowest bathos of humiliation, " I am old," he says, "weak, ruined, and in want,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...tampered with judges, had tortured prisoners, and had wasted on paltry intrigues all the powers of the most exquisitely constructed intellect that has...ever been bestowed on any of the children of men!" There have been conflicting statements as to the manner in which Bacon bore himself during the anxious... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...prisoners, and had wasted on paltry intrigues all the powers of the most exquisitely-constructed ^ were simple of heart, and humble like a child ! * altogether dec !" There have been conflicting statements as to the manner in which Bacon bore himself during the anxious... | |
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