... of dark imaginings, on whom the freshness of the heart ceased to fall like dew, whose passions had consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds... The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete - Page 418by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871Full view - About this book
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts, a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power...misanthropy and voluptuousness; a system in which the Iwo great commandments were, lo hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife. This affectation... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts, a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power...which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife. This affectation has passed away ; and a few more years... | |
| The Westminster Review January-April 1841 - 1841 - 582 pages
...that licentiousness and misanthropy were the attributes of genius, or, as Macaulay wittily said, " a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and love your neighbour's wife;" and many a young mind, staggered by the problem of the universe, on turning... | |
| Heredity - 1844 - 220 pages
...him here or hereafter." Macauly also says, that " from the poetry of Lord Byron his youthful admirers drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy...which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife." Here again were manifested the violent and bitter temper... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts, a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power...ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness. This affectation has passed away ; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts, a pernicious * ir.J n> WVa your neighbour's wife. This affectation has passed away ; and a few more years will destroy... | |
| Orson Squire Fowler - Eugenics - 1847 - 322 pages
...worst that could befall him here or hereafter. " From the poetry of Lord Byron his youthful admirers drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy...which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife." BURNS, that poet of nature, also inherited his genius from... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts, a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power and moral depravity. From the poetry of Lr/rd Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness. This affectation... | |
| Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...This was not the worst. There was created, in the minds of many of these enthusiasts, a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power...ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness. This affectation has passed away ; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...This was not the worst. There was created, in the minds of many of these enthusiasts, a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power...which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife. This affectation has passed away ; and a few more years... | |
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