 | Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood - 1888 - Страниц: 446
...been considered as light reading but unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to...from us so large a portion of so short an existence." 5. During the last winter New England has won another victory not in depth of snow and thickness of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - Страниц: 1100
...life of am:in is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Doctor tened by humanity, priests whose learning and abilities...defence of tyranny and imposture. The Hotspurs, t labours, —the labour of thieves on the treadmill, of children in factories, of negroes in sugar plantations,—... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - Страниц: 584
...reading by Hilpa anil Shnlnm. But, unhappily, the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr Nares to...so short an existence. "Compared with the labour of leading through these volumes, nil other labour, the labour of thieves on the treadmill, of children... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - Страниц: 934
...the life of man is now threescore years and ten; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Doctor Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short...labour of reading through these volumes,, all other labours—the labour of thieves on the treadmill, of children in factories, of negroes in sugar plantations—are... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - Страниц: 582
...reading by flilpa anil Shalum. But, unhappily, the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr Nares to...portion of so short an existence. "Compared with the Inbour of leading through these volumes, nil other labour, the labour of thieves on the treadmill,... | |
 | William Minto - 1895 - Страниц: 584
...to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence. "Compared with the labour of leading through these volumes, all other labour, the labour...treadmill, of children in factories, of negroes in sugar-plantations, is an agreeable recreation," ic. His masterpieces of broad ridicule are found in... | |
 | Molière - 1895 - Страниц: 252
...unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence." COUSIN'S La Société française au dix-septième siècle d'aprés le Grand Cyrus contains an interesting,... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - Страниц: 216
...reading by Hilpa and Shalum. But unhappily the life of man is now three- 15 score years and ten, and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to...from us so large a portion of so short an existence. MACAULAY. 17. somewhat unfair in, taut soit peu deraisonnable de la part de. 48. Archbishop Laud. The... | |
 | Martin Andrew Sharp Hume - 1898 - Страниц: 540
...essay on Burghley. " Compared," he says, " with the labour of reading through these volumes, all other labour, of thieves on the treadmill, of children in factories, of negroes on sugar-plantations, is an agreeable recreation. . . . Guicciardini, although certainly not the most... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1899 - Страниц: 52
...man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in [a single author] to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence." It is the same with Bancroft, — he, too, lacks design, proportion and adaptation. His work is fragmentary... | |
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... occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois. Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum. 
