 He had, in the highest degree, that noble faculty whereby man is able to live in the past and in the future, in the distant and in the unreal. India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country...  National Life and Character: A Forecast - Page 2by Charles Henry Pearson - 1893 - 357 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...and dullness, and confusion, he drew a rich abundance of ingenious theories and vivid pictures. He had, in the highest degree, that noble faculty, whereby...and in the future, in the distant and in the unreal. India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...darkness, and dulness, and confusion, he drew a rich abundance of ingenious theories and vivid pictures. He had, in the highest degree, that noble faculty, whereby...and in the future, in the distant and in the unreal. India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...and dullness, and confusion, he drew a rich abundance of ingenious theories and vivid pictures. He had, in the highest degree, that noble faculty, whereby...and in the future, in the distant and in the unreal. India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...analyzed and digested those vast and shapeless masses ; his imagination animated and colored them. He had in the highest degree that noble faculty whereby man is able to live in the past and the future, in the distant and the unreal. India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...analyzed and digested those vast and shapeless masses ; his imagination animated and colored them. He had in the highest degree that noble faculty whereby man is able to live in the past and the future, in the distant and the unreal. India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen,... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 pages
...clime, and there breathes ambrosia ; it secures the right exercise of that noble faculty whereby he is able to live in the past and in the future, in the distant and, in what seems to others, the unreal. It removes that discontent which St. Ephrem describes, saying, that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...of ingenious theories and vivid pictures. He had, in the highest degree, that noble faculty 223 229 whereby man is able to live in the past and in the future, in the distant and in the unreal. India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but... | |
 | Emil Kade - English language - 1856 - 280 pages
...for the_/ezc» P. — It was always the good of his fellow-creatures that he had at heart. Bl. — Man is able to live in the past and in the future, in the distant and in the unreal. M. — He turned the useless into use. Bl. — Like only recognises like. WR — I did my best. By.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...analyzed and digested those vast and shapeless masses ; his imagination animated and colored them. He had in the highest degree that noble faculty whereby man is able to live in the past and the future, in the distant and the unreal. India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen,... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1837 - 806 pages
...darkness, and dullness, and confusion, he formed a multitude of ingenious theories and vivid pictures. He had, in the highest degree, that noble faculty whereby...and in the future, in the distant and in the unreal. India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but... | |
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