 Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time ; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition ; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1691825Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Arnold - 1882 - 568 pages
...Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time ; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye, with a judgment prepared with the most...herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labor ; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit. Think of a man, like the universal... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1885 - 670 pages
...Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition ; with an herculean robust1 Tlie censors of books are compared to those who engross or forestall all the wrn in the market,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1887 - 590 pages
...Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time ; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating, aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared with the most...herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour ; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit. Think of a man, like the universal... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 364 pages
...L'Esprit des Lois." Burke described him as " A genius not born in every country, or every time : with a Herculean robustness of mind ; and nerves not to be broken by labour." whelm his reasoning ; yet he has often wit, happy allusions, and sometimes writes finely : there is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 pages
...shrink from no labour in study are called 'Hercules' followers in learning.' Burke talks of 'a man with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour. ' 1. 21. distemper of learning, In the Latin translation Bacon adds — ' There is also... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 538 pages
...Think of a genius not born in every country or every time : a man gifted by Nature with a penetrating, aquiline eye, — with a judgment prepared with the...Herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labor, — a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit. Think of a man like the universal... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 524 pages
...Think of a genius not born in every country or every time : a man gifted by Nature with a penetrating, aquiline eye, — with a judgment prepared with the...Herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labor, — a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit. Think of a man like the universal... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1912 - 200 pages
...nature with a penetrating acquiline eyc ; with a judgment prepared with thé most extensive érudition ; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour ; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit. Think of a man like thé universal... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 pages
...Think of a genius not born in every country or every time: a man gifted by Nature with a penetrating, aquiline eye — with a judgment prepared with the...Herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labor — a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit. Think of a man like the universal... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 2001 - 474 pages
...every country, or every time; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating, aquiline eye; with a judgement prepared with the most extensive erudition; with an...Herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit."6 Burke's contemporary, William Blackstone,... | |
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