 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 song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood,...  Literary Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review - Page 539by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 702 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural...is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth... | |
 | Francis Augustus Cox - General Baptist mission - 1842 - 464 pages
...but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration, not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural...the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...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 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
...184 natural defence of the weak, are more familiar this subtle race than to the Ionian of the times of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the...is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth... | |
 | 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...time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty,... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...Plur. zur Bezeichnung der Gesammthcit : those arts are more familiar to this race than to the Jonian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark, ages (Mar. Ess. IV. 231); the Bengalee is by no means placable (id.) cf. Numerus. Dient das Adjectiv zur... | |
 | Theology - 1857 - 992 pages
...but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration, not unmingled with contempt All those arts, which are the natural...weak, are more familiar to this subtle race, than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of the darkest ages. What the horns... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural...Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns arc to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - Bengal (India) - 1854 - 412 pages
...but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration, not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural...the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of the darkest ages. What the horns... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - Bengal (India) - 1854 - 410 pages
...the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of 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 song, is to woman — deceit is to the Bengali. Large promises,... | |
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