 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 2241877Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Rawle - 1885 - 31 pages
...such cause can affect the silent concourse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or...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."... | |
 | Thomas Greenwood - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Greenwood - 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... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 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... | |
 | 1887 - 992 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;... | |
 | Melvil Dewey - 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.... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
| |
