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" Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed 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.... "
The Methodist Quarterly Review - Page 224
1877
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Jilted! Or, my uncle's scheme [by W.C. Russell].

William Clark Russell - 1875 - 310 pages
...complain of. No man can be alone who has his books. Do you remember what Macaulay says of them ? ' These are the old friends who are never seen with...are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change.' " " But doesn't your...
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Jilted! Or, My Uncle's Scheme: A Novel, Volume 2

William Clark Russell - 1875 - 238 pages
...to complain 'of. No man can be alone who has his books. Do you remember what Macaulay says of them? 'These are the old friends who are never seen with...are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change.'" " But doesn't your...
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Materials and Models for Latin Prose Composition

John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 418 pages
...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...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....
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 129

1876 - 966 pages
...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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The life and letters of lord Macaulay, Volume 1

sir George Otto Trevelyan (2nd bart.) - 1876 - 508 pages
...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." (ireat as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were...
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Leipsic Edition of the Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume 1

George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...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 honors and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were...
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The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume 2

George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 422 pages
...by him in all vicissitndes — comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are never seen with new faces...the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscnrity." Great as were the honors and possessions which Macaulay acqnired by his pen, all who knew...
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Essays: Historical, Literary, Educational

William Chauncey Fowler - 1876 - 314 pages
...such causes can affect the silent intercourse which .we hold with the highest of human intellects, These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth or in poverty, in glory or in obscurity."* Having spoken of the importance and value of a liberal education,...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 143

1876 - 606 pages
...nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are " never seen with new laces; who are the same in 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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The Best Reading: Hints on the Selection of Books; on the Formation of ...

Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1877 - 364 pages
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse IB disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. There are the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato If never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably Dante never stays...
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