... indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. Essays and Addresses, 1900-1903 - Page 90by Sir John Lubbock - 1903 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Greenwood - Libraries - 1886 - 520 pages
...stood by him in all vicissitudes — comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, the old friends who are never seen with new faces...wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity.' We must, however, be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind... | |
| Thomas Greenwood - Libraries - 1886 - 522 pages
...stood by him in all vicissitudes — comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, the old friends who are never seen with new faces...wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity.' We must, however, be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind... | |
| Literature - 1886 - 922 pages
...stood by him in all vicissitudes — comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, the old friends who are never seen with new faces;...wealth and in poverty, in glory, and in obscurity. Great as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were... | |
| William Francis Henry King - Quotations - 1887 - 630 pages
...line that Pixérécourt had stamped on each volume in his library. Macaulay says (Essay on Bacon), " With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there...never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long," etc. It is scarcely less charity to lend books than to lend money, but those who want an excuse for... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1887 - 222 pages
...stood by him in all vicissitudes — comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, the old friends who are never seen with new faces...wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. Great as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were... | |
| Melvil Dewey - Cataloging - 1886 - 324 pages
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. There are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change.... | |
| American periodicals - 1887 - 992 pages
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who arc the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry;... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...silent converse which we hold with the highest, of human intellects. 554 Macau lay : Essays. Lord Bacon. These are the old friends who are never seen with...there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. 555 Macaulay : Essays. Lord Bacon. For books are as meats and viands are: some of good, some of evil... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. 554 Macaulay : Essays. Lord Bacon. These are the old friends who are never seen with...and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. lu the dead there is no change. 555 Macaulay : Essays. Lord Bacon. For books are as meats and viands... | |
| Robert Steel - Biography - 1890 - 680 pages
...stood by him in all vicissitudes — comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. Great as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were... | |
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