 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
 | Sarat Chandra Ghose - 1909 - 242 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 resentments. These are the only friends who are never seen new faces, who are the same in wealth, and in poverty, in glory and... | |
 | Oscar Kuhns - 1910 - 178 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.' The confidence with which he could rely upon intellectual pursuits for occupation and amusement, assisted... | |
 | TEMPLE SCOTT - 1911 - 294 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...Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never 106 stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1911 - 760 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...wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. URDU COMPOSITION. MUHAMMAD MUSTAPHA KHAN, Paper-setters — I MA, BL (MAULAVI MUHAMMAD YUSUF JAFFARI.... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1912 - 746 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 resentments. These are the old friends which are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity.... | |
 | Library Association - 1913 - 822 pages
...beautiful eulogy on books which led Walter Bagehot to suggest that his mind was a prey to print:— " These 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.... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1914 - 374 pages
...vicissitudes — comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, "the old friends 10 who are never seen with new faces ; who are the same...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... | |
 | 1914 - 200 pages
...sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, the old friends who are never seen with newfaces; 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House Appropriations - 1973 - 1644 pages
...because we have been altered in the process of reading it. Macaulay said of great literature : These n re the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there i« no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant.... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1896 - 50 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 honors and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were... | |
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